Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“But maybe he was destructive by nature since he messed up every girl he touched” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Something about a bunch of trees made people think they could cut loose. “Wherever there’s Nature, there’s assholes,” he said cheerfully.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Too friendly, too eager to be on message, man is obsolete, dooming ourselves to extinction, restore the balance of nature and babble… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“In their dreams they touch, they intertwine, it's more like a collision, and that is the end of flying. They fall to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. Treacherous ground, my own territory.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which… — 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
“Nature demands variety, for men. It stands to reason, it's a part of the procreational strategy. It's Nature's Plan. Women know that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“...the values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and America has always had mixed… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Then the Alumni Association man cleared his throat and gave out with a pious spiel about Winifred Griffen Prior, saint on earth.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“listen. the leaves no longer rustle, the wind no longer sighs, our hearts no longer beat. They've fallen silent. Fallen, as if… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Why interesting and important? Because women are interesting and important in real life. They are not an afterthought of nature, they are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“What she read was a series of short connected lyrics, “Isis in Darkness.” The Egyptian Queen of Heaven and Earth was wandering… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It means you can’t cheat Nature,” he says. “Nature demands variety, for men. It stands to reason, it’s part of the procreational… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he’d been flattered at… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Another friend of mine used to maintain that airplanes stayed up in the air only because people believed—against reason—that they could fly:… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read:… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Teaching other people to write is not something I can do. The only kind of advice I can give them will be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always… — 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
