Quotes from Margaret Atwood

It is better to hope than to mope!

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.

We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

A word after a word after a word is power.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

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.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.