Margaret Atwood quotes

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic, widely recognized for her influential works in contemporary literature. Her novel "The Handmaid's Tale" has become a global classic and inspired many adaptations. She continues to inspire readers worldwide with her thought-provoking exploration of dystopian themes and feminist issues. Here are 547 of her quotes:

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Margaret Atwood

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Margaret Atwood

We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Margaret Atwood

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

Margaret Atwood

You can have a men's novel with no women in it except possibly the landlady or the horse, but you can't have a women's novel with no men in it.

Margaret Atwood

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Margaret Atwood

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Margaret Atwood

A word after a word after a word is power.

Margaret Atwood

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

Margaret Atwood

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

Margaret Atwood

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Margaret Atwood

We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

Margaret Atwood

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

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

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.

Margaret Atwood

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil.

Margaret Atwood

We've learned to see the world in gasps.

Margaret Atwood

If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.

Margaret Atwood

It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.

Margaret Atwood

Gardening is not a rational act.

Margaret Atwood

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

Margaret Atwood