1,705 Quotes by Margaret Atwood

To feel that empty, again, again. I listen to my heart, wave upon wave, salty and red, continuing on and on, marking time.

My self is a thing that I must now compose...as one composes a speech. What I must present is a 'made' thing. Not something born.

Sanmam ki ağaç kadar güzel bir şiir olsun.

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

They should have never given us uniforms if they didn't want us to be an army.

There’s something spine-stiffening about uniforms, about insignia, about shiny lapel pins.

Death is a beautiful woman, with wings and one breast almost bare; or is that Victory? I can’t remember.

Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we'd done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.

If he had known unstructured space is a delugeand stocked his log house-boat with all the animals even the wolves, he might have floated. But obstinate hestated, The land is solid and stamped, watching his foot sink down through the stone up to his knee. From "Progressive insanities of a pioneer