Oryx Quotes by Margaret Atwood

More Quotes by Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood has 649 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
• A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
• In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
• Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people…
• Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
• This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
• A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence…
• I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that…
• An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
• If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
• War is what happens when language fails.
• A word after a word after a word is power.

See all 649 quotes by Margaret Atwood »