45 Quotes About Margaret-atwood

There’s a severe and unadorned elegance about her - like a Quaker meeting house - which has its appeal; an appeal which, for him, is aesthetic only. One fords not make love to a minor religious edifice.

Comme Margaret Atwood, je pense que vouloir rencontrer un écrivain parce qu'on aime son livre, c'est comme vouloir rencontrer un canard parce qu'on aime le foie gras.

I am not mad because I'm a woman... I'm mad because you're an asshole.

She stubs out her cigarette in the brown glass ashtray, then settles herself against him, ear to his chest. She likes to hear his voice this way, as if it begins not in his throat but in his body, like a hum or a growl, or like a voice speaking from deep underground. Like the blood moving through her own heart: a word, a word, a word.

Now I only need to lookout at them through my sky-blue eyes.They see their own ill willstaring them in the foreheadand turn tail.Before, I was not a witch.But now I am one.

Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer...an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

I opened myself to your silences.

He doesn't know what is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him it he looks at it too clearly.