A word after a word after a word is power.
In the end, we’ll all become stories.
We still think of a powerful woman as an anomaly, when what she is, is a force of nature.
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Stupidity is often a virtue in the arts.
I’m a pessimist, but I’m a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible.
Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.
The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn’t one.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
In the end, we’ll all become stories.
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print.
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.
Best Margaret Atwood Quotes part 2
You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out.
Stupidity is often a virtue in the arts.
But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.
What you don’t know won’t hurt you, but often what you do know will.
The sun rose like an executioner’s axe this morning.
Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.
When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
You can’t fake a sudden friendship.
It’s a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you write your biography, it’s equally assumed you’re lying your head off.
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible.
You fit into me Like a hook into an eye A fish hook An open eye
A word after a word after a word is power.
After all, murder is when life meets death, that’s where it happens, anyway.
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
If I ran the world, I’d build a huge fence with a whole bunch of holes in it.
I’m a pessimist, but I’m a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come.
Since the world is ending, said Aunt Lydia, we have time for confession. She turned her eyes inward then, and began to speak to the god she believed was there, just as she would have done before.
Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
Don’t let the bastards grind you down.
When we think of either liberation or fantasy, the structures of narrative starkly exclude everything that is other.
The human heart is strange and I have found it to be frequently mistaken.
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