Margaret Atwood Quotes


The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. Margaret Atwood Uncategorized 140
Snowman wakes before dawn. Margaret Atwood First 129
War is what happens when language fails. Margaret Atwood War 128
I lie on the floor washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices or a voice. I have come to the edge of the land. I could get pushed over. Margaret Atwood Sanity 120
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. Margaret Atwood Anomaly 119
Vanity is becoming a nuisance I can see why women give it up eventually. But Im not ready for that yet. Margaret Atwood Vanity 110
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. Margaret Atwood Blindness 108
Knowing was a temptation. What you dont know wont tempt you. Margaret Atwood Temptation 107
I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise. Margaret Atwood Age 107
They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose then. We were a society dying of too much choice. Margaret Atwood Choices 99
When any civilization is dust and ashes he said art is all thats left over. Images words music. Imaginative structures. Meaninghuman meaning that isis defined by them. You have to admit that. Margaret Atwood Meaning 99
You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself. Margaret Atwood Jealousy 97
Reality simply consists of different points of view. Margaret Atwood Uncategorized 97
I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary. Margaret Atwood Love 97
No mother is ever completely a childs idea of what a mother should be and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything we didnt do too badly by one another we did as well as most. Margaret Atwood Motherhood 97
Ah men why do you want all this attention I can write poems for myself make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do you have to offer me I cant find otherwise except humiliation Which I no longer need. Margaret Atwood Men 95
Where do the words go when we have said them Margaret Atwood Words 92
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves Even while were still alive. We wish to assert our existence like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. Margaret Atwood Immortality 92
You can think clearly only with your clothes on. Margaret Atwood Advice 90
He feels the need to hear a human voicea fully human voice like his own. Sometimes he laughs like a hyena or roars like a lionhis idea of a hyena his idea of a lion. Margaret Atwood Psychology 90
Potential has a shelf life. Margaret Atwood Potential 88
As we know from the study of history no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter... Margaret Atwood Change 87
They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing. Margaret Atwood Growing up 87
When we think of the past its the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. Margaret Atwood Memory 87
Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf. Margaret Atwood World 84
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. Margaret Atwood Age 80
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. Margaret Atwood Science 79
The internet is 95 percent porn and spam Margaret Atwood Internet 79
If your not annoying somebody youre not alive. Margaret Atwood Poet 78
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. Margaret Atwood Canada 76
Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable Margaret Atwood Temptation 74
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums and possibly a good deal more. Margaret Atwood Technology 73
The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love. Margaret Atwood Snow 72
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. Margaret Atwood Amount 71
I want everything back the way it was. But there is no point to it this wanting. Margaret Atwood Want 71
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. Margaret Atwood Evil 70
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. Margaret Atwood Dirt 69
The night is mine my own time to do with it as I will as long as I am quiet. As long as I dont move. As long as I lie still. The difference between lie and lay. Lay is always passive. Margaret Atwood Feminism 69
But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander aimless homeless alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life. Margaret Atwood Soul 69
Gardening is not a rational act. Margaret Atwood Gardening 68
Some people write letters in the library. Margaret Atwood Letters 68
Happiness is a garden walled with glass theres no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories because there are no journeys. Its loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward along its twisted road. Margaret Atwood Misery 67
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. Margaret Atwood Being 65
Nature is to zoos as God is to churches. Margaret Atwood Nature 64
We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. Margaret Atwood First 64
Time old cold time old sorrow settling down in layers like silt in a pond. Margaret Atwood Sorrow 63
Humanity is so adaptable ... Truly amazing what people can get used to as long as there are a few compensations. Margaret Atwood Humanity 61
The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst they can sell more papers that way as one of them told me himself for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others. Margaret Atwood Journalism 58
It isnt running away theyre afraid of. We wouldnt get far. Its those other escapes the ones you can open in yourself given a cutting edge. Margaret Atwood Escape 57
The sitting room is subdued symmetrical its one of the shapes money takes when it freezes. Money has trickled through this room for years and years as if through an underground cavern crusting and hardening like stalactites into these forms. Margaret Atwood Money 57

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