Quotes from Margaret Atwood
You say, the sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.
- Margaret Atwood
The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?
- Margaret Atwood
I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.
- Margaret Atwood
Debt is not just a money thing. It's about owing and being owed. Money is just one thing you can exchange. You can exchange good deeds, you can exchange revenge, you can exchange murders.
- Margaret Atwood
As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.
- Margaret Atwood
Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.
- Margaret Atwood
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
- Margaret Atwood
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
- Margaret Atwood
You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.
- Margaret Atwood
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
- Margaret Atwood
Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.
- Margaret Atwood
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
- Margaret Atwood