Children Quotes by Margaret Atwood

I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.

— Margaret Atwood

“It is just passing the buck, as children do, to mothers. I’ve”

— Margaret Atwood

Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

— Margaret Atwood

“Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Already my childhood seemed far away—a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. Did I regret its loss, did I want…

— Margaret Atwood

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders.…

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For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.

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Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of…

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“In those timeless years between infancy and, say, seven what is has always been: in that way children inhabit the realm of…

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He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his…

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“The stories the children whispered to one another - while they sat weaving their endless carpets, while they could still see -…

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“When a child, I have played games with a blindfold obscuring my vision. Now I am like that child. Blindfolded, groping my…

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“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way…

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“if the teenage kids want to carouse, that's where they do it. They make bonfires, and drink too much and smoke dope,…

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“Maybe the kid gravitated to Zeb for the same reason children like dinosaurs: when feeling abandoned in a world of forces beyond…

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“She has never been in the presence, before, of two people who are in love with each other. She feels like a…

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Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances…

— Margaret Atwood

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot…

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“Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish…

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“That image - of a little child being suffocated, or almost suffocated, by others who thought the whole thing was a game…

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“I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling…

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“Luke and I used to walk together, sometimes, along these streets. We used to talk about buying a house like one of…

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“Children don’t read ‘genres’; they read stories. Below a certain age, they don’t distinguish between ‘true’ and ‘not true,’ because they see…

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“Now maybe I wouldn't do it, but I was a child then," said Oryx more softly. "Why are you so angry?" "I…

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Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have…

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But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the…

— Margaret Atwood

“Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.”

— Margaret Atwood

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way…

— Margaret Atwood

I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in…

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“There is a little verse I remember from a child: Needles and pins, needles and pins, When a man marries his trouble…

— Margaret Atwood

“You're not my real parents, every child has thought. I'm not your real child. But with orphans, it's true. What freedom, to…

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This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having…

— Margaret Atwood

“I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children.”

— Margaret Atwood

“But it seems she’d wanted children after all, because when she was told she’d been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the…

— Margaret Atwood

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the…

— Margaret Atwood

No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the…

— Margaret Atwood

Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are…

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“What are we do to? The child sex trade is not for us: our children are unattractive and rude, and - due…

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“Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mother's love - the love…

— Margaret Atwood

It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect…

— Margaret Atwood