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Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his dick?
— Margaret Atwood
And Zeb's brother, Adam, was inside the flower too. That
— Margaret Atwood
...that's what Hiltler exemplified: not the triumph of evil but the failure of reason.
— Margaret Atwood
If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.
— Margaret Atwood
Life's not fair; why should I be?
— Margaret Atwood
Guess it's the climate change, says Sam. That's what people say, the way they used to say, We've angered God.
— Margaret Atwood
It hasn't escaped me that the object that keeps me alive is the same one that will kill me. In this way it's like love, or a certain kind of it.
— Margaret Atwood
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
— Margaret Atwood
Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.
— Margaret Atwood
Now there's a huge building in its place, what they call a shopping complex, as if shopping were a psychic disease.
— Margaret Atwood
Thus the time passed. Toby stopped counting it. In any case, time is not a thing that passes, said Pilar: it's a sea on which you float.
— Margaret Atwood
And it's not the real Elvis you need to resemble, it's the imitation Elvises. Not hard to look like one of them.
— Margaret Atwood
My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?
— Margaret Atwood
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.
— Margaret Atwood
I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
— Margaret Atwood
But all my love ever came to was a bad end. Red-hot shoes, barrels studded with nails. That's what it feels like, unrequited love.
— Margaret Atwood
Wherever there's Nature, there's assholes," he
— Margaret Atwood
A divorce is like an amputation, you survive but there's less of you.
— Margaret Atwood
These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.
— Margaret Atwood
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
— Margaret Atwood
Roamin' here, roamin' there, roamin' in my underwear, I got a sweetie covered in hair, She's all pussy everywhere
— Margaret Atwood
There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
— Margaret Atwood
I'm such a mess," he says. "Sometimes I think everyone's dead.
— Margaret Atwood
Or I would walk through Queen's Park, quickly and with purpose. If too slowly, a man was bound to appear.
— Margaret Atwood
If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
— Margaret Atwood
It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.
— Margaret Atwood
There's only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.
— Margaret Atwood
It's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.
— Margaret Atwood
Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.
— Margaret Atwood
I remember Queen Victoria's advice to her daughter. Close your eyes and think of England.
— Margaret Atwood
The driver is going over it with a chamois, lovingly. This at least hasn't changed, the way men caress good cars. He's
— Margaret Atwood
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.
— Margaret Atwood
This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intense
it's hard to remember afterwards, — Margaret Atwood
It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.
— Margaret Atwood
There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.
— Margaret Atwood
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. There's
— Margaret Atwood
The beauty is an illusion, and also a warning: there's a dark side to beauty, as with poisonous butterflies.
— Margaret Atwood
There were still newspapers, then. We used to read them in bed. It's French, he said. From m'aidez. Help Me.
— Margaret Atwood
For present purposes he's shortened the name. He's only Snowman. He's kept the abominable to himself, his own secret hair shirt.
— Margaret Atwood
It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor's wife should cut them all out and paste them into her scrapbook.
— Margaret Atwood
She'd learned a lot of things from Zeb in his Urban Bloodshed Limitation classes: in Zeb's view, the first bloodshed to be limited should be your own.
— Margaret Atwood
The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter.
— Colleen Atwood
When the slugs begin to talk there's no time to lose.
— Margaret Atwood
There are to be no toeholds for love. We are two-legged wombs, that's all: sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices.
— Margaret Atwood
whatever else women want to see, it's not themselves; not in their worst light anyway.
— Margaret Atwood
Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.
— Margaret Atwood
Paper isn't important. It's the words on them that are important.
— Margaret Atwood
In the end, we'll all become stories. Or else we'll become entities. Maybe it's the same.
— Margaret Atwood
Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.
— Colleen Atwood
Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.
— Eleanor Catton
It's no good thinking you're invisible if you aren't
— Margaret Atwood
So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means.
— Margaret Atwood
Alcohol's a depressant, it will let me down later.
— Margaret Atwood
What is believed in society is not always the equivalent of what is true; but as regards to a woman's reputation, it amounts to the same thing.
— Margaret Atwood
Those years were just an anomaly, historically speaking, the Commander said, just a fluke. All we've done is return things to Nature's norm.
— Margaret Atwood
(...) cause after a request like that there's always a next time, wether you say yes or no.
— Margaret Atwood
But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are.
— Margaret Atwood
It's crowded, which pleases me. Salesladies intimidate me, I don't like to be caught shopping.
— Margaret Atwood
The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.
— Margaret Atwood
Amanda says if there's something you really want, you can figure out a way to get it. She says being discouraged is a waste of time. I
— Margaret Atwood
It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.
— Margaret Atwood
She who weeps when the sun's in sky, Will never pile the platter high.
— Margaret Atwood
I'd felt like crying, but cry once and it's all over: if you cry, the reliable men will despise you, and then they will not be reliable any more.
— Margaret Atwood
Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.
— Margaret Atwood
It's the end of the world every day, for someone.
— Margaret Atwood
Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it's the latter, so I sign up
— Margaret Atwood
He's humanoid, he's hominid, he's an aberration, he's abominable; he'd be legendary, if there were anyone left to relate legends.
— Margaret Atwood
None of them were the men we knew. The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others.
— Margaret Atwood
Love's never a fair trade.
— Margaret Atwood
It's astonishing how folks can get so worked up over something that doesn't exist.
— Margaret Atwood
When a man is attacked in print, it's usually for saying what he says; when a woman is attacked in print, it's often for being who she is.
— Margaret Atwood
I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
Deathwatch. That's a kind of beetle, it buries carrion. I
— Margaret Atwood
Is it disapproval or extreme lust? Toby wonders. With some men it's hard to tell the difference.
— Margaret Atwood
I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves.
— Margaret Atwood
But I envy the Commander's Wife her knitting. It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained.
— Margaret Atwood
She sees where she is, she's here, by herself, she's stranded in the future. She doesn't know how to get back.
— Margaret Atwood
Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.
— Margaret Atwood
Suppose I told you about the income from body parts? Organs, bones, DNA, whatever's in demand. That's one of the big earners for this place.
— Margaret Atwood
To want is to have a weakness. It's this weakness, whatever it is, that entices me. It's like a small crack in a wall, before now impenetrable.
— Margaret Atwood
We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.
— Margaret Atwood
Women can't hold property anymore, she said. It's a new law.
— Margaret Atwood
We must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.
— Margaret Atwood
A lie, that we come from water.The truth is we were born
from stones, dragons, the sea's
teeth, — Margaret Atwood
Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got.
— Margaret Atwood
I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife ... as if I'm lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That's why I'm not allowed a knife.
— Margaret Atwood
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
— Margaret Atwood
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.
— Margaret Atwood
There's something final about saying you were married once. It's like saying you were dead once. It shuts them up.
— Margaret Atwood
It's kind of shocking to hear Toby called a babe; sort of like calling God a studmuffin.
— Margaret Atwood
She's smiling, a bright diminutive smile. Her eyes have come loose.
— Margaret Atwood
There's blood, a taste I remember. It tastes of orange popsicles, penny gumballs, red licorice, gnawed hair, dirty ice.
— Margaret Atwood
There is a silence. But sometimes it's as dangerous not to speak. "Yes,
— Margaret Atwood
But it's love that does us in.
— Margaret Atwood
