A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
Margaret Atwood
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Margaret Atwood
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
A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
Margaret Atwood
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
Margaret Atwood
Canada was built on dead beavers.
Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
Margaret Atwood
Gardening is not a rational act.
Margaret Atwood
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
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
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
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret Atwood
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood
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
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
Margaret Atwood
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
Margaret Atwood
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Margaret Atwood
The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
Margaret Atwood
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