1,705 Quotes by Margaret Atwood

He said he'd seen death in Mary's face, but then, hindsight is always accurate.

You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.

[...] je suis assise à ma table en bois pour griffer tant et plus le papier avec mon stylo. Non, pas griffer - les stylos ne griffent plus. Les mots roulent plutôt facilement et sans bruit sur la page ; c'est réussir à les faire couler le long du bras, c'est les extirper des doigts qui est très difficile.

The books I was given to learn from were about a boy and a girl called Dick and Jane. The books were very old, and the pictures had been altered at Ardua Hall. Jane wore long skirts and sleeves, but you could tell from the places where the paint had been applied that her skirt had once been above her knees and her sleeves had ended above her elbows. Her hair had once been uncovered.

La normalità, diceva Zia Lydia, significa ciò cui si è abituati. Se qualcosa potrà non sembrarvi normale al momento, dopo un po' di tempo lo sarà. Diventerà normale." Margaret Atwood, Il racconto dell'ancella, traduzione di Camillo Pennati

Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different times.

We have learned to see the world in gasps.

Being socially retarded is like being mentally retarded, it arouses in others disgust and pity and the desire to torment and reform.

Everything is post these days, as if we’re all just a footnote to something earlier that was real enough to have a name of its own.