I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Something about a bunch of trees made people think they could cut loose. “Wherever there’s Nature, there’s assholes,” he said cheerfully.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“But maybe he was destructive by nature since he messed up every girl he touched” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he’d been flattered at… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Too friendly, too eager to be on message, man is obsolete, dooming ourselves to extinction, restore the balance of nature and babble babble, he overdid it so much that he sounded preposterous, and in an outfit like Bearlift, with its full quota of preposterous green-hued furfuckers, that took some effort.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“In their dreams they touch, they intertwine, it's more like a collision, and that is the end of flying. They fall to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. Treacherous ground, my own territory.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“listen. the leaves no longer rustle, the wind no longer sighs, our hearts no longer beat. They've fallen silent. Fallen, as if… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“...the values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and America has always had mixed… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Then the Alumni Association man cleared his throat and gave out with a pious spiel about Winifred Griffen Prior, saint on earth.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“What she read was a series of short connected lyrics, “Isis in Darkness.” The Egyptian Queen of Heaven and Earth was wandering in the Underworld, gathering up pieces of the murdered and dismembered body of her lover Osiris. At the same time, it was her own body she was putting back together; and it was also the physical universe. She… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“It means you can’t cheat Nature,” he says. “Nature demands variety, for men. It stands to reason, it’s part of the procreational… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Why interesting and important? Because women are interesting and important in real life. They are not an afterthought of nature, they are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Nature demands variety, for men. It stands to reason, it's a part of the procreational strategy. It's Nature's Plan. Women know that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Another friend of mine used to maintain that airplanes stayed up in the air only because people believed—against reason—that they could fly:… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Teaching other people to write is not something I can do. The only kind of advice I can give them will be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read:… — 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
