A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
Margaret Atwood
A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
Margaret Atwood
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
Margaret Atwood
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret Atwood
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
Margaret Atwood
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret Atwood
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
Margaret Atwood
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
Margaret Atwood
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.
Margaret Atwood
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret Atwood
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Type:
Novelist
Date of Birth:
1939-11-18
Year of Death:
Nationality:
Canadian |