Best Quotes by Margaret Atwood (Top 10)
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War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret Atwood
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A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood
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Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
Margaret Atwood
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood
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Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Margaret Atwood
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But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.
Margaret Atwood
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Better never means better for everyoneIt always means worse, for some.
Margaret Atwood
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Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
Margaret Atwood
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret Atwood
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
Margaret Atwood
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Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
Margaret Atwood
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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
Margaret Atwood
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If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.
Margaret Atwood
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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
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The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders were older than me I could believe in their wisdom, I could believe they had transcended rage and malice and the need to be loved. Now I know better. I look at the faces in newspapers, in magazines, and wonder: what greeds, what furies drive them on?
Margaret Atwood
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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
Margaret Atwood
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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
Margaret Atwood
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There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.
Margaret Atwood
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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
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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Margaret Atwood
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Where do the words go when we have said them?
Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
Margaret Atwood
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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
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Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for.
Margaret Atwood
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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
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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
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The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.
Margaret Atwood
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Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up
Margaret Atwood
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No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
Margaret Atwood
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Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
Margaret Atwood
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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
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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
Margaret Atwood
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If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret Atwood
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Gardening is not a rational act.
Margaret Atwood
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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
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
Margaret Atwood
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
Margaret Atwood