To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It's okay, mummy's in there lying on the floor. She'll be alright in an hour or so.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“So, the book is not 'anti-religion.' It is against the use of religion as a front for tyranny; which is a different… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet —… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice… As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“One young fellow pointed to another steamer in the distance, and said it was the Lady of the Lake, a United States… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one. — 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
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