Margaret Atwood

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in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised...to give back something of what [I have] received" (qtd. in "Author Profile").
Two years after this life-altering decision, Atwood entered Victoria College at the University of Toronto. She received her bachelor's degree from Victoria College in 1961, and then went on to receive her Master's degree from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Atwood also received education from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during1962-63 and 1965-67.
The most positive comment Atwood received about her writing aspirations was from a friend of her mother ("Author Profile").This comment, however, was not exactly positive. Her mother's friend said, "That's nice, dear, because it's something you can do at home" (qtd. in "Author Profile"). Atwood's parents also were not that supportive of her writing goals. They wanted her to be a botanist because they did not want her "to starve to death" (qtd. in "Author ...

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