1,705 Quotes by Margaret Atwood

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

Then I remembered something I'd seen and hadn't noticed, at the time. It wasn't the army. It wassome other army.

It's the end of the world every day, for someone.

They have a certain gaiety to them, a power of invention, they don't care what people think. They have escaped, though what it is they've escaped from isn't clear to us. We think that their bizarre costumes, their verbal tics, are chosen, and that when the time comes we also will be free to choose. "That's what I'm going to be like,

Es gibt mehr als nur eine Form von Freiheit, sagte Tante Lydia, Freiheit zu und Freiheit von. In den Tagen der Anarchie war es die Freiheit zu. Jetzt bekommt ihr die Freiheit von. Unterschätzt sie nicht.

Sometimes these flashes of normality come at me from the side, like ambushes. The ordinary, the usual, a reminder, like a kick.

I planted him in this country like a flag

How strange to remember typewriters, with their jammed keys and snarled ribbons and the smudgy carbon paper for copies.

Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures—they all have families and ancestors, just like people.