“Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Sanity is a valuable possession: I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I will bend, I will touch the ground, or as close to it as I can get without rupture. I will lay… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“But they had a money value: they represented a cash profit to others. They must have sensed that--sensed that they were worth… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it’s one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he’s been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Money isn't the only thing that must flow and circulate in order to have good value: good turns and gifts must flow… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You think you have the amount of money that is your credit limit. We're just wired to think that, you know? Until… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Debt is not just a money thing. It's about owing and being owed. Money is just one thing you can exchange. You… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Within one's own family money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“but love was undependable, it came and then it went; so it was good to have a money value, because then at… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I guess that’s how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing beforehand.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“She believed in public service; she felt she had to roll up her sleeves and do something useful for the war effort.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Not a hope. I know where I am, and who, and what day it is. These are the tests, and I am… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes. Money has trickled through this room… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Money as such is, as Oscar Wilde said, perfectly useless. You can't eat it, drink it, shelter yourself from the cold with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I guess you get all my money, I said. And I'm not even dead. I was trying for a joke, but it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Under the old system - which is now so archaic that a lot of people can't remember it - if you wanted… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“They all say, Go on to graduate studies, and they give you a bit of money; so you do, and you think,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Mary: Some call this "Eve's curse," but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the… — margaret atwood Copy Share
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Every time the women appear, Snowman is astonished all over again. They're every known colour from the deepest black to whitest white, they're various… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“She knows she's deceiving herself about that, but she prefers to deceive herself. She desperately needs to believe such pure joy is still possible.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
