Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. — 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
When a man is attacked in print, it's usually for saying what he says; when a woman is attacked in print, it's… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“According to Tobias, it was more difficult to seduce a stupid woman than an intelligent one because stupid women could not understand… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If you DJ reality, that is, if you make a mash-up of actual reality, you're going to end up with something that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“So she's been to college, too. I should have known. That's what we get then," he said nastily, "for educating women. They… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There are other women with baskets, some in red, some in the dull green of the Marthas, some in the striped dresses,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The night is mine, my own time, to do with it as I will, as long as I am quiet. As long… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“What restless woman can resist a man with a shovel in one hand and a glowing rose bush in the other, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“A lot of people call you a feminist painter." "What indeed," I say. "I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I'm… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Women are human beings, and human beings are a very mixed lot. I've always been against the idea that women were Victorian… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Why do men feel threatened by women?' I asked a male friend of mine. So this male friend of mine, who does… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There can be bonds of real affection, she said, blinking at us ingratiatingly, under such conditions. Women united for a common end!… — 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
“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
“Gilead was, although undoubtedly patriarchal in form, occasionally matriarchal in content, like some sectors of the social fabric that gave rise to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“From her handbag she takes a round gilt compact with violets on the cover. She opens it, unclosing her other self, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Their faces were the way women's faces are when they've been talking about you behind your back and they think you've heard:… — 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
