“...that's what Hiltler exemplified: not the triumph of evil but the failure of reason.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It is always a mistake to curse back openly at those who are stronger than you unless there is a fence between.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go. You could… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“History (that list of ballooning wishes, flukes, bent times, plunges and mistakes clutched like parachutes) is rolling itself up in your head… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“He has been travelling blindly, whether forward he cannot say, without learning anything except that he has not yet learned anything, unless… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It’s a good excuse, though, orphanhood. It explains everything—every mistake and wrong turn. As Sherlock Holmes declared. She had no mother to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your… — 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
