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In my dreams of this city I am always lost. — Margaret Atwood

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities ... — Margaret Ayer Barnes

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. — Margaret Drabble

Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading. — Margaret Atwood

People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground. — Margaret Keane

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. — Margaret Lee Runbeck

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. — Margaret Atwood

I hate people. People make me pro-nuclear. — Margaret Smith

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown. — Margaret Atwood

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. — Margaret Thatcher

I'll love you until the day after tomorrow."--pg407 — Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. — Margaret Atwood

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. — Margaret Atwood

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty. — Margaret Smith

Silence is the language of inertia. — Margaret Heffernan

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

Those in pain have no time for the pain they cause. — Margaret Atwood

Red Leader to Red One. Come in Red One! — Margaret Weis

What is the real breath of a man - the breathing out or the breathing in? — Margaret Atwood

There are no lawyers anymore, and the university is closed. — Margaret Atwood

Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

On the whole we have just as much orange left and it tastes far better, if we give a good deal of it away. — Margaret Warde

Strange how a tiny hand could make the weight of his new responsibilities feel like a boulder on his chest. — Margaret Mallory

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve. — Margaret Heffernan

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own. — Margaret Deland

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation. — Margaret Sackville

I should have known better than to rely on pills. You can't buy unconsciousness quite so cheaply. — Margaret Atwood

Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence? — Margaret Atwood

Well, love don't count one rass unless it's a verb. — Margaret Cezair-Thompson

How much longer can I be so fucking cute? — Margaret Atwood

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality. — Margaret Of Valois

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. — Margaret Fuller

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

Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted. — Margaret Atwood

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul. — Margaret Thatcher

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour. — Julia Margaret Cameron

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind. — Margaret Oliphant

Just her and the great outdoors. Gwendolyn Margaret Passmore and a million blades of grass. — Julia Quinn

Distrust ... is the beginning of hatred. — Margaret Of Valois

Yelling is a form of publishing — Margaret Atwood

But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests. — Elizabeth Gaskell

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach. — Margaret Mead

I know I was alright on Friday when I got up; if anything I was feeling more stolid than usual. — Margaret Atwood

It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister — Margaret Thatcher

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. — Margaret Fuller

New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity. — Margaret Thatcher

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves. — Margaret Atwood

You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn. — Rodney Atkins

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl. — Princess Margaret

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. — Margaret Mead

What would that be like - to long, to yearn for someone who is right there before your eyes, day in and day out? — Margaret Atwood

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes. — Margaret Mahy

It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets? — Margaret Cavendish

I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed — Margaret Atwood

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race. — Margaret Sanger

I feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to the roots. — Margaret Cho

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone. — Margaret Thatcher

In our family, we don't have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then it's all over. And I've only twice ever had a row with my sister. — Princess Margaret

People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me. — Margaret Cho

Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it. — Margaret Fuller

a flayed body untangled
string by string and hung
to the wall, an agonized banner
displayed for the same reason
flags are. — Margaret Atwood

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. — Margaret Mitchell

It made him feel invisible - not that he wanted to feel anything else. — Margaret Atwood

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it? — Margaret Mead

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word. — Margaret Atwood

The cat is, above all things, a dramatist. — Margaret Benson

Is it disapproval or extreme lust? Toby wonders. With some men it's hard to tell the difference. — Margaret Atwood

Great. So he's a genius. Fifty points for Ivanclaw. — Margaret Stohl

She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden. — Margaret Way

People always forget about prophecies unless they come true. — Margaret Atwood

Luke pictured himself — Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection. — Margaret Fuller

If I was going to do something I didn't want to do, I at least wanted to be remunerated for it. — Margaret Atwood

And each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing. — Margaret Atwood

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. — 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

He was twisted as a pretzel, he was a tinfoil-halo shitnosed frogstomping king rat asshole, but he wasn't stupid. — Margaret Atwood

No-one is ever too old to know better. — Margaret Preston

Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way. — Margaret Craven

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind. — Margaret Atwood

Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

He loved politicians - even Republicans. — Margaret Truman Daniel

Maybe all women should be robots, he thinks with a tinge of acid: the flesh-and-blood ones are out of control. — Margaret Atwood

Fear can give you urgent wings. — Margaret Mahy

Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want. — Margaret Mead

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

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one. — Margaret Atwood

A man in a cloud, with icicle teeth and eyes of fire. — Margaret Atwood

A whole person could go through the wringer and come out flat, neat, completed, like a flower pressed in a book. — Margaret Atwood

what is is, as Grandma Win used to say, and what can't be cured must be endured, and laugh and the world laughs with you but cry and you cry alone. — Margaret Atwood

Because citizens were always a bit like inmates and inmates were always a bit like citizens, so Consilience and Positron have only made it official. — Margaret Atwood

Women must have economic and social equality with men. — Margaret Sanger

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.
(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky

I want to keep on living, in any form. I resign my body freely, to the uses of others. They — Margaret Atwood

When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help. — Margaret Thatcher

We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems. — Margaret Mead