1,705 Quotes by Margaret Atwood

Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do you have to offer me I can’t find otherwise except humiliation? Which I no longer need.

Thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last.

The threshold of a new house is a lonely place.

I walk away from him. It’s enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It’s like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.

The things I believe can’t all be true, though one of them must be. But I believe all of them, all three versions of Luke, at once and the same time. This contradictory way of believing seems to me, right now, the only way I can believe anything. Whatever the truth is, I will be ready for it.

As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn’t imagine how it was that you hadn’t known it before.

One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others.

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

I don’t think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.