Quotes by
Margaret Atwood |
1939 - , Canadian writer
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist. She has published seventeen books of poetry, sixteen novels, ten books of non-fiction, eight collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and one graphic novel. | 13 quotes | 1,049 visits |
Quotations
| • | The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly. 16 |
| • | You can forget who you are if you're alone too much. 6 |
| • | You can think clearly only with your clothes on. 5 |
| • | There were a lot of utopias in the nineteenth century, wonderful societies that we might possibly construct. Those went pretty much out of fashion after World War I. 5 |
| • | I believe that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. 4 |
| • | We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. 4 |
| • | Nature is to zoos as God is to churches. 3 |
| • | Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women. 3 |
| • | A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze. 3 |
| • | You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave. 3 |
| • | To want is to have a weakness. 2 |
| • | Ordinary is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary. 2 |
| • | We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy? 2 |
