Quotes from Margaret Atwood
Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
- Margaret Atwood
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.
- Margaret Atwood
Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.
- Margaret Atwood
What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
- Margaret Atwood
Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.
- Margaret Atwood
Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.
- Margaret Atwood
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
- Margaret Atwood
Writing poetry is a state of free float.
- Margaret Atwood
Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo.
- Margaret Atwood
A voice is a human gift it should be cherished and used to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
- Margaret Atwood
God is not the voice in the whirlwind, God is the whirlwind.
- Margaret Atwood
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.
- Margaret Atwood