People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than… — 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
People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Keep the faith. Whatever that may be. Don't get too depressed yet, because I have a belief in America being very diverse… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Under the old system - which is now so archaic that a lot of people can't remember it - if you wanted… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What people want is perfection," said the man. "In themselves." "But they need the steps to it to be pointed out," said… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My father was a forest entomologist, which means he was aware that spraying forests for spruce budworm was counterproductive in that it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When people in my generation started to write, we did not actually have much of a movie industry, much of a theater… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Walking was not fast enough so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I am not running for mayor yet. But if it comes to be true that people cannot voice an opinion unless they… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what… — 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… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
![“In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her regular classes. Because she was teaching, of course, Macbeth, and a number of them had murdered people. The guy who wrote the best paper said, "You do have this, 'Is this…” quote by Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/441/margaret-atwood-40_cases_in-shakespeare-saved-my-life-author-laur_2156889.jpg)
