Margaret Atwood Quotes

“On impulse he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:death

“If you take ‘mortality’ as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then ‘immortality’ is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you’ll be...”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:death fear

“Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:happiness

“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:truth language

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:truth writing reading

“Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:time sorrow

“Potential has a shelf life.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:time

“Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn’t even know he’s been hurt until much later.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:women hurting

“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:women men forgiveness

“Vanity is becoming a nuisance; I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I’m not ready for that yet.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:women vanity

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