There's something final about saying you were married once. It's like saying you were dead once. It shuts them up. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I'm not going to have a husband anyway," said Laura. "I'm going to live by myself in the garage.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“But I envy the Commander's Wife her knitting. It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor's wife should cut them all out and paste them into her… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“A Log Cabin quilt is a thing every young woman should have before marriage, as it means the home; and there is… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Also, if a man takes pride in his disguise skills, it would be a foolish wife who would claim to recognise him:… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I did not yet know that my lack of enjoyment - my distaste, my suffering even - would be considered normal and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Her husband sat silently while she talked, his hands fisted together, his half-smile set in concrete; he looked wisely down at the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“She did understand, or at least she understood that she was supposed to understand. She understood, and said nothing about it, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“They had been pathetically eager to have the wedding in the family church. Their reaction though, as far as she could estimate… — 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 heights, but each one of them is admirably proportioned. Each is sound of tooth, smooth of skin. No ripples of fat around their waists, no bulges, no dimpled orange-skin cellulite on their thighs. No body hair,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
