Margaret Atwood Quotes - Page 2

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I am not your justification for existence.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

It's clear, it's fresh, like a mint candy.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

A word after a word after a word is power.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

The proper study of Mankind is Everything.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Starlet sex scandal. Giant squid involved.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

She who pays the undertaker calls the tune.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

In my dreams of this city I am always lost.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

[My favorite word is] and. It is so hopeful.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Where do the words go when we have said them?

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I exist in two places, here and where you are.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

In the animal world individuals cheat, as do we.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.)

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

A movie about the past is not the same as the past.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.