Margaret Atwood Quotes and Quotations
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Fear has a smell, as Love does.
The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.
A word after a word after a word is power.
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
A word after a word after a word is power.
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.