1,705 Quotes by Margaret Atwood

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences.

Bless you. Be careful. Anyone intending to meddle with words needs such blessing, such warning.

We understand more than we know.

It is more important to be a murderess than the one murdered

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

She was faintly terrifying. She wanted it all. She wanted them all. She wanted experiences. In Tin's already jaded view, experiences were what you got when you couldn't get what you wanted, but Jorrie had always been more optimistic than him.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

I have read the [...] scribblings, which I consigned to the fire where they belong — and where they for once cast a little light, which they certainly would not have done otherwise.