Margaret Atwood Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Margaret Atwood on Wise Famous Quotes.
But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
they sleep, they can be startled, even there in the soothing of the heart, like waves on the shore around them. A
She is dying because she said.
She is dying for the sake of the word.
It is her body, silent
and fingerless, writing this poem.
She is dying for the sake of the word.
It is her body, silent
and fingerless, writing this poem.
He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know we were happy, even then? Because we at least had that: arms, around.
At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.
Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.
He's coming to hate the gratitude of women. It is like being fawned on by rabbits, or like being covered with syrup: you can't get it off.
His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it.
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.
I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.
Am I shallow? she asks the mirror. Yes, I am shallow. The sun shines on the ripples where it's shallow. Deep is too dark.
I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.
His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.
I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills.
not hard-wired to individuate other people in numbers above two hundred, the size of the primal tribe,
To fix and make plausible, the nebulous emotions of my costumed heroins, like diamonds on a sea of dough.
We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.
WOMEN'S PRAYVAGANZA TODAY. The banner covers the building's former name, some dead president they shot. Below
When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.
I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.
The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.
When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end.
The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don't ever ask for the true story.
I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
In the burned house I am eating breakfast.
You understand? There is no house, there is no breakfast,
yet here I am
You understand? There is no house, there is no breakfast,
yet here I am
It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.
We get along by a symbiotic adjustment of habits and with a minimum of that pale-mauve hostility you often find among women.
For drinking Life there are two cups: The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy
Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?
Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?
I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.
Perhaps he was merely being friendly. Perhaps he saw the look on my face and mistook it for something else. Really what I wanted was the cigarette.
My red skirt is hitched up to my waist, though no higher. Below it the Commander is fucking. What he is fucking is the lower part of my body.
The Serpent is wise in that it lives in immediacy, without the need for the elaborate intellectual frameworks Humankind is
A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out. What
I hear where you're coming from, as if the voice itself were a traveler, arriving from a distant place. Which it would be, which it is.
When I finally went to school I had to adjust to other girls and learn their fiendish ways. Having learnt them, I turned them on all and sundry.
The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.
I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.
My transition from not being a writer to being one was instantaneous, like the change from docile bank clerk to fanged monster in "B" movies.
For present purposes he's shortened the name. He's only Snowman. He's kept the abominable to himself, his own secret hair shirt.
Besides, who would think of marrying a mothball? A question my mother put to me often, later, in other forms.
Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.
Just remember this, when the scream at last has ended and you've turned on the lights: by the rules of the game, I must always lie.