--- title: "4 Loud Quotes By Margaret Atwood" description: "4 Loud quotes by Margaret Atwood. Plus more from Margaret Atwood and more Loud sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6d/margaret-atwood-40_defiant_if-anyone-else-told-her-to-lower-her-voi_2816144.jpg" --- > [“If anyone else told her to lower her voice, Roz would know what to do: scream louder.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/if-anyone-else-told-her-to-lower-her-voice-roz-would-know-what-to-do/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6d/margaret-atwood-40_defiant_if-anyone-else-told-her-to-lower-her-voi_2816144.jpg) > [Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/something-is-unfolding-being-revealed-to-me-i-see-that-there-s-a/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6d/margaret-atwood-40_aim_something-is-unfolding-being-revealed-to_2830371.jpg) > [I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-am-not-my-childhood-snowman-says-out-loud/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/acb/margaret-atwood-40_childhood_i-am-not-my-childhood-snowman-says-out-l_2858977.jpg) > [Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/kafka-thought-his-stories-were-hilarious-we-don-t-necessarily-have/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a8/margaret-atwood-40_kafka_kafka-thought-his-stories-were-hilarious_2886465.jpg) ## Other authors on Loud ## More by Margaret Atwood > [“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-m-fine-said-pilar-for-the-moment-and-the-moment-is-the-only-time-we/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/and-yet-it-disturbs-me-to-learn-i-have-hurt-someone-unintentionally-i/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/mary-some-call-this-eve-s-curse-but-i-think-that-is-stupid-because/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/the-birds-were-singing-around-me-but-i-reflected-that-the-very-birds/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/strange-how-we-decorate-pain-these-ribbons-for-instance-and-the-small/) [margaret atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-wanted-to-forget-the-past-but-it-refused-to-forget-me-it-waited-for/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/back-at-home-they-drew-the-curtains-and-read-with-disapproval-with/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“It's my fault. I am forgetting too much.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/it-s-my-fault-i-am-forgetting-too-much/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/all-fiction-is-about-people-unless-it-s-about-rabbits-pretending-to/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/simon-walks-back-to-the-house-alone-the-night-is-clear-and-warm-with/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/there-is-indeed-something-delightful-about-being-able-to-combine/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/every-time-the-women-appear-snowman-is-astonished-all-over-again-they/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/once-you-publish-a-book-it-is-out-of-your-control-you-cannot-dictate/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/the-more-difficult-it-was-to-love-the-particular-man-beside-us-the/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/she-knows-she-s-deceiving-herself-about-that-but-she-prefers-to/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/loud/margaret-atwood/#itemlist", "name": "4 Loud Quotes By Margaret Atwood", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“If anyone else told her to lower her voice, Roz would know what to do: scream louder.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Margaret Atwood" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/if-anyone-else-told-her-to-lower-her-voice-roz-would-know-what-to-do/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6d/margaret-atwood-40_defiant_if-anyone-else-told-her-to-lower-her-voi_2816144.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6d/margaret-atwood-40_defiant_if-anyone-else-told-her-to-lower-her-voi_2816144.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6d/margaret-atwood-40_defiant_if-anyone-else-told-her-to-lower-her-voi_2816144.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If anyone else told her to lower her voice, Roz would know what to do: scream louder.” — Margaret Atwood", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. 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