Margaret Atwood quote: I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then ...

I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

~ Margaret Atwood ~

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