Margaret Atwood Quotes

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

topic:past

“everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:age

“Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

topic:ignorance

“She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:imagination

“They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:imagination

“There’s something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you’re still alive.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:living

“Never pray for justice, because you might get some.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

topic:justice

“Having experienced both, I am not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:feeling

“When any civilization is dust and ashes . . . art is all that’s left over.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:art

“She wished him to owe his recovery to her alone—to her care, to her tireless devotion. That is the other side of selflessness: its tyranny.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:care tyranny

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