“Gender roles suck," says Swift Fox. Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Condoms seemed to her inherently wicked. But they were also inherently funny. They were like rubber gloves with only one finger, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word 'undone'. These women could not be undone; or not. They… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“From her handbag she takes a round gilt compact with violets on the cover. She opens it, unclosing her other self, and… — 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
