Mother Quotes by Margaret Atwood

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

— Margaret Atwood

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

— Margaret Atwood

“What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers.”

— Margaret Atwood

“It is just passing the buck, as children do, to mothers. I’ve”

— Margaret Atwood

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

— Margaret Atwood

“Besides, who would think of marrying a mothball? A question my mother put to me often, later, in other forms.”

— Margaret Atwood

“My mother said Aunt Pauline meant kindly but had standars, which were all very well for those that could afford them.”

— Margaret Atwood

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.

— Margaret Atwood

“Mother, I think. Wherever you may be. Can you hear me? You wanted a women’s culture. Well, now there is one. It…

— Margaret Atwood

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

— Margaret Atwood

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way…

— Margaret Atwood

Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are…

— Margaret Atwood

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with…

— Margaret Atwood

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way…

— Margaret Atwood

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way…

— Margaret Atwood

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of…

— Margaret Atwood

“Nate stares at his mother, who however looks just the same as she has always looked. It’s not only the revelation but…

— Margaret Atwood

“I didn't know I was about to be left with her idea of me; with her idea of my goodness pinned onto…

— Margaret Atwood

“Sometimes she would cry. I was so lonely, she'd say. You have no idea how lonely I was. And I had friends,…

— 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

“My mother took the train to Halifax to see my father off. It was crammed with men en route to the Front;…

— Margaret Atwood