“Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves. It's” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The tide of human desire, the desire for more and better, would overwhelm them. It would take control and drive events, as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“What could he have done or said differently? What change would have altered the course of events? In the big picture, nothing.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“If you don’t like it, change it, we said, to each other and to ourselves. And so we would change the man,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“What was in them was promise. They dealt in transformations; they suggested an endless series of possibilities, extending like the reflections in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“They had been pathetically eager to have the wedding in the family church. Their reaction though, as far as she could estimate… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“What was in them was promise. They dealt in transformations; they suggested an endless series of possibilities, extending like the reflections in… — 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 Image
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“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 Image
