Money Quotes by Margaret Atwood

“I will bend, I will touch the ground, or as close to it as I can get without rupture. I will lay…

— Margaret Atwood

“But they had a money value: they represented a cash profit to others. They must have sensed that--sensed that they were worth…

— Margaret Atwood

“Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Sanity is a valuable possession: I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.”

— Margaret Atwood

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or…

— Margaret Atwood

“Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough,…

— Margaret Atwood

“An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.”

— Margaret Atwood

“The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it’s one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.”

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“Not a hope. I know where I am, and who, and what day it is. These are the tests, and I am…

— Margaret Atwood

“The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes. Money has trickled through this room…

— Margaret Atwood

Debt is not just a money thing. It's about owing and being owed. Money is just one thing you can exchange. You…

— Margaret Atwood

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme…

— Margaret Atwood

I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of…

— Margaret Atwood

“You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it…

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“They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then…

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“His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he’s been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the…

— Margaret Atwood

“It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to…

— Margaret Atwood

Within one's own family money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme…

— Margaret Atwood

The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth…

— Margaret Atwood

He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been…

— Margaret Atwood

Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have…

— Margaret Atwood

As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without…

— Margaret Atwood

Under the old system - which is now so archaic that a lot of people can't remember it - if you wanted…

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“They all say, Go on to graduate studies, and they give you a bit of money; so you do, and you think,…

— Margaret Atwood

“She believed in public service; she felt she had to roll up her sleeves and do something useful for the war effort.…

— Margaret Atwood

More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it…

— Margaret Atwood

“Money isn't the only thing that must flow and circulate in order to have good value: good turns and gifts must flow…

— Margaret Atwood

You think you have the amount of money that is your credit limit. We're just wired to think that, you know? Until…

— Margaret Atwood

Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once…

— Margaret Atwood

“but love was undependable, it came and then it went; so it was good to have a money value, because then at…

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“I guess that’s how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing beforehand.…

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Money as such is, as Oscar Wilde said, perfectly useless. You can't eat it, drink it, shelter yourself from the cold with…

— Margaret Atwood

“I guess you get all my money, I said. And I'm not even dead. I was trying for a joke, but it…

— Margaret Atwood