WHAT I LEARNED IN FIVE MINUTES WITH MARGARET ATWOOD.

I met Margaret Atwood before a screening of The Handmaid's Tale at the Brattle Theatre. She taught me about taking time for people... there a ton of people around and it was like I was the only person in the room. A few of her comments that I immediately wrote down: 

"everyone has a religion, whether they admit to it or not""...and it doesn't even matter if it's true. That's not really what it's about."

"I was always waiting for religion to make a comeback and oh! Here it is."

Two book recommendations: God, a Biography and Evolution of God

"Two camps of humans and the earth: there's the people who think they have DOMINION over the earth and everything that is here is theirs ... AND then there's the people of Adam, that we're the STEWARDS of the Earth and it is our job to take care of it" (I imagine this is her camp.)