Margaret Atwood Quotes
"Never pray for justice, because you might get some."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Justice)
"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Day, End, Spring)
"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Answers, Literature, Questions)
"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
(Related: People, Hope, Race, Will)
"Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Time, Meaning, Myths)
"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Beginning, Nationalism)
"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Love, Names, Snow)
"The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Water)
"This above all, to refuse to be a victim."
- Margaret Atwood
"War is what happens when language fails."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: War, Language)
"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Leader, Man, Woman)
"We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Thought, Now, Running)
"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
(Related: Consequences, Mothers, Right)
"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Blindness, Eye)
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Canada, Illness, states, United)
"A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Divorce)
"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Reason, Writing)
"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
(Related: Silence, Speech, Voice)
"A word after a word after a word is power."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Power, Word)
"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Age, Belief, Disguise)
"Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Mother, Being)
"Canada was built on dead beavers."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Canada)
"For years I wanted to be older, and now I am."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Now, Years)
"Gardening is not a rational act."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Gardening, Act)
"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Time, People, Freedom, Joy, Youth)
"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
(Related: Religion, Catholicism, Saints)
"You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Writer)