--- title: "5 Simile Quotes By Margaret Atwood" description: "5 Simile quotes by Margaret Atwood. Plus more from Margaret Atwood and more Simile sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ec/margaret-atwood-40_life_i-wonder-which-is-preferable-to-walk-aro_556598.jpg" --- > [“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-wonder-which-is-preferable-to-walk-around-all-your-life-swollen-up/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ec/margaret-atwood-40_life_i-wonder-which-is-preferable-to-walk-aro_556598.jpg) > [There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/there-s-an-epigram-tacked-to-my-office-bulletin-board-pinched-from-a/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/394/margaret-atwood-40_boards_there-s-an-epigram-tacked-to-my-office-b_1580176.jpg) > [“Already my childhood seemed far away—a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. Did I regret its loss, did I want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/already-my-childhood-seemed-far-away-a-remote-age-faded-and/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c1/margaret-atwood-40_childhood_already-my-childhood-seemed-far-away-a-r_1725842.jpg) > [“The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. Alas, burthen,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/the-poems-that-used-to-entrance-me-in-the-days-of-miss-violence-now/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/253/margaret-atwood-40_archaic_the-poems-that-used-to-entrance-me-in-th_2686038.jpg) > [Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/time-has-not-stood-still-it-has-washed-over-me-washed-me-away-as-if-i/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/209/margaret-atwood-40_careless_time-has-not-stood-still-it-has-washed-o_3200556.jpg) ## Other authors on Simile - [Dennis Vickers 43 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/simile/dennis-vickers/) - [Garth Risk Hallberg 10 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/simile/garth-risk-hallberg/) - [Olivia Sudjic 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/simile/olivia-sudjic/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-andre-aciman-459.jpg) André Aciman 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/simile/andre-aciman/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-orwell-37887.jpg) George Orwell 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/simile/george-orwell/) - [Catherine Lacey 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/simile/catherine-lacey/) ## More by Margaret Atwood > [“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-m-fine-said-pilar-for-the-moment-and-the-moment-is-the-only-time-we/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/and-yet-it-disturbs-me-to-learn-i-have-hurt-someone-unintentionally-i/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/mary-some-call-this-eve-s-curse-but-i-think-that-is-stupid-because/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/the-birds-were-singing-around-me-but-i-reflected-that-the-very-birds/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/strange-how-we-decorate-pain-these-ribbons-for-instance-and-the-small/) [margaret atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-wanted-to-forget-the-past-but-it-refused-to-forget-me-it-waited-for/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/back-at-home-they-drew-the-curtains-and-read-with-disapproval-with/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“It's my fault. I am forgetting too much.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/it-s-my-fault-i-am-forgetting-too-much/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/all-fiction-is-about-people-unless-it-s-about-rabbits-pretending-to/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/simon-walks-back-to-the-house-alone-the-night-is-clear-and-warm-with/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/there-is-indeed-something-delightful-about-being-able-to-combine/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/every-time-the-women-appear-snowman-is-astonished-all-over-again-they/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/once-you-publish-a-book-it-is-out-of-your-control-you-cannot-dictate/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/the-more-difficult-it-was-to-love-the-particular-man-beside-us-the/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“She knows she's deceiving herself about that, but she prefers to deceive herself. She desperately needs to believe such pure joy is still possible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/she-knows-she-s-deceiving-herself-about-that-but-she-prefers-to/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/simile/margaret-atwood/#itemlist", "name": "5 Simile Quotes By Margaret Atwood", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin - everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone - and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Margaret Atwood" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-wonder-which-is-preferable-to-walk-around-all-your-life-swollen-up/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ec/margaret-atwood-40_life_i-wonder-which-is-preferable-to-walk-aro_556598.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ec/margaret-atwood-40_life_i-wonder-which-is-preferable-to-walk-aro_556598.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ec/margaret-atwood-40_life_i-wonder-which-is-preferable-to-walk-aro_556598.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst…” — Margaret Atwood", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- \"Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Margaret Atwood" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/there-s-an-epigram-tacked-to-my-office-bulletin-board-pinched-from-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/394/margaret-atwood-40_boards_there-s-an-epigram-tacked-to-my-office-b_1580176.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/394/margaret-atwood-40_boards_there-s-an-epigram-tacked-to-my-office-b_1580176.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/394/margaret-atwood-40_boards_there-s-an-epigram-tacked-to-my-office-b_1580176.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- \"Wanting to meet an author…” — Margaret Atwood", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Already my childhood seemed far away—a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. 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