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Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
I write as if I’ve lived a lot of things I haven’t lived (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she’s actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
If he wants to be an asshole, it’s a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
She had her reasons. Not that they were the same as anybody else’s reasons (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath… (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
I think the book you always like best is the one you’re about to write (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Writing is very improvisational. It’s like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you’ve been (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There’s something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It’s like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism (Margaret Atwood Quotes)