Talk: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.
  • A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.
    • Variant: A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
  • A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

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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.
  • A word after a word after a word is power (from "Spelling").
  • An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
  • Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
  • Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one.
  • Canada was built on dead beavers.
  • For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
  • Gardening is not a rational act.
  • 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.
  • I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
  • If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, "How's the little lady today!" you will probably cringe. But if he's an American, he's only being friendly.
  • 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.
  • If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
  • In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
  • Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.
  • Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
  • No one knows what causes an outer landscape to become an inner one.
  • Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
  • Put yourself in a different room, that's what the mind is for.
  • She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.
  • Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.
  • The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.
    • Variant: The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
  • The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panti-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head.
  • The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not "Am I really that oppressed?" but "Am I really that boring?".
  • The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
    • Variant: The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
  • The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.
  • 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.
  • We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
  • We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
  • You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
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