45 Quotes About Margaret-atwood

If anyone else told her to lower her voice, Roz would know what to do: scream louder.

Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.

Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you’re on your own. ­Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine.

The ancestral voices were prophesying war because ancestral voices never shut up, and they hate to be wrong, and war is a sure thing, sooner or later.

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

So few people understand about anything.

She’s the kind of woman who wants what she doesn’t have and gets what she wants and then despises what she gets.

I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. Treacherous ground, my own territory.

There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There is something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with.