Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself;… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The cat jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. It's his way of telling whether or not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The road to death is a lonely highway, and longer than it apears, even when it leads straight down from the scaffold,… — 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
In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution,… — 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
I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting. — 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
