“It's hard to be afraid of a man who is sitting watching you put on hand lotion.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Today she wears her habitual expression of strained anxiety; she smells of violets.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seento be seenis to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Fear is synonymous with the future, and the future consists of forked roads, I should say forking roads, because the roads are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“A great fear came over me, and my body went entirely cold, and I stood as if paralyzed with fear; for I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“ Variation on the Word Sleep I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen. I would like to watch… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“UP You wake up filled with dread. There seems no reason for it. Morning light sifts through the window, there is birdsong,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the… — 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
