Margaret Atwood quotes

Nobody dies from lack of sex, it's lack of love we die from. (Margaret Atwood)
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. View quote
Margaret Atwood
We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. View quote
Margaret Atwood
You can think clearly only with your clothes on. View quote
Margaret Atwood
You can have a men's novel with no women in it except possibly the landlady or the horse, but you can't have a women's novel with no men in it. View quote
Margaret Atwood
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Never pray for justice, because you might get some. View quote
Margaret Atwood
A word after a word after a word is power. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one. View quote
Margaret Atwood
War is what happens when language fails. (Margaret Atwood)
Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love. View quote
Margaret Atwood
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. View quote
Margaret Atwood
We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy? View quote
Margaret Atwood
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. View quote
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. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil. View quote
Margaret Atwood
We've learned to see the world in gasps. View quote
Margaret Atwood
We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. (Margaret Atwood)
If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word. View quote
Margaret Atwood
It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Gardening is not a rational act. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown. View quote
Margaret Atwood