1,705 Quotes by Margaret Atwood

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning.

Where was the threshold, between the inner world and the outer one? We each move unthinkingly through this gateway every day, we use the passwords of grammar--I say, you say, he and she, it, on the other hand, does not say--paying for the privilege of sanity with common coin, with meanings we've agreed on.

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.

This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

What touches you is what you touch.

All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.

In those timeless years between infancy and, say, seven what is has always been: in that way children inhabit the realm of myth.