Margaret Atwood Quotes

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood

Valentine's Day, Love, Snow

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
Margaret Atwood

Divorce, Less, Survive

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood

Human, Silence, Together

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood

End, Spring, Smell

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood

Age, Else, Another

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
Margaret Atwood

Victim, Above, Refuse

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
Margaret Atwood

Hope, Human, Realize

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
Margaret Atwood

Eye, Blindness, Leads

A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood

Power, After, Word

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
Margaret Atwood

Thought, Away, Running

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
Margaret Atwood

Mother, Capable, Shocked

Reality simply consists of different points of view.
Margaret Atwood

Reality, Different, Simply

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.
Margaret Atwood

Time, Power, Hold

Canada was built on dead beavers.
Margaret Atwood

Dead, Canada, Beavers

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
Margaret Atwood

Religion, Choose, Female

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
Margaret Atwood

Boring, Beginning, Cultural

War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret Atwood

War, Language, Happens

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

Live, Saying, Here

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

Women, Same, Fat

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.
Margaret Atwood

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.
Margaret Atwood

Done, After, Mothers

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

Writer, Nerve, Amount

Gardening is not a rational act.
Margaret Atwood

Gardening, Act, Rational

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.
Margaret Atwood

Political, Off, Interested

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.
Margaret Atwood

Respect, Book, Find

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Nationality: Canadian

Born: November 18, 1939

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