Men Quotes by Margaret Atwood

But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.

— Margaret Atwood

Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.

— Margaret Atwood

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

— Margaret Atwood

Why do men feel threatened by women?

— Margaret Atwood

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

— Margaret Atwood

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

— Margaret Atwood

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

What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?

— Margaret Atwood

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought…

— Margaret Atwood

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

— Margaret Atwood

How could I be sleeping with this particular man… Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

— Margaret Atwood

How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.

— Margaret Atwood

Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely…

— Margaret Atwood

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him.…

— Margaret Atwood

“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman…

— Margaret Atwood

“After they had skated around the pond several times, my father asked my mother to marry him. I expect he did it…

— Margaret Atwood

What people want is perfection," said the man. "In themselves." "But they need the steps to it to be pointed out," said…

— Margaret Atwood

Men and women are not "equal" if "equal" means "exactly the same." Our many puzzlements and indeed unhappinesses come from trying to…

— Margaret Atwood

“I wasn't even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I'd exhausted the notion that the answer…

— Margaret Atwood

And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain.…

— Margaret Atwood

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

We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as…

— Margaret Atwood

She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been…

— Margaret Atwood

“Condoms seemed to her inherently wicked. But they were also inherently funny. They were like rubber gloves with only one finger, and…

— Margaret Atwood

The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me.…

— Margaret Atwood

I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and…

— Margaret Atwood

All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood…

— Margaret Atwood

In the early fight for women's rights, the point was not that women were morally superior or better. The conversation was about…

— Margaret Atwood

What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years,…

— Margaret Atwood

Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might…

— Margaret Atwood

It used to be that your bloodlines dictated who you were. But the U.S. became the land of the self-made man, in…

— Margaret Atwood

Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless…

— Margaret Atwood

Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so…

— Margaret Atwood

There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not…

— Margaret Atwood

He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or…

— Margaret Atwood