1,705 Quotes by Margaret Atwood

Connor was not her first lover but he was her first grown-up one, he was the first who did not treat sex as some kind of panty-raid. He took her body seriously, which impressed her no end.

Extreme emotions could be lethal. If I can't have you nobody will, and so forth. Death could set in.

Life is warped. I'm just in sync.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Sex has been domesticated, stripped of the promised mystery, added to the category of the merely expected. It's just what is done, mundane as hockey. It's celibacy these days that would raise eyebrows.

The internet is 95 percent porn and spam

The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. Alas, burthen, thine, cometh, aweary—the archaic language of unrequited love. I was irritated with such words, which rendered the unhappy lovers—I could now see—faintly ridiculous, like poor moping Miss Violence herself. Soft-edged, blurry, soggy, like a bun fallen into the water. Nothing you'd want to touch,

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.