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Margaret Atwood
Canadian
Novelist
About the author
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Art
#Popular
#Society
#Dream
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Justice
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Day
#End
#Spring
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Questions
#Literature
#Answers
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,
Canadian
Novelist
#Hope
#People
#Will
#Race
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Time
#Meaning
#Myths
The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Beginning
#Nationalism
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Love
#Names
#Snow
The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Water
This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#War
#Language
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Man
#Woman
#Leader
We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Now
#Thought
#Running
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,
Canadian
Novelist
#Right
#Consequences
#Mothers
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Eye
#Blindness
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Illness
#states
#United
#Canada
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Divorce
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Reason
#Writing
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Voice
#Speech
#Silence
A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Power
#Word
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Belief
#Age
#Disguise
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Being
#Mother
Canada was built on dead beavers.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Canada
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Now
#Years
Gardening is not a rational act.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Act
#Gardening
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,
Canadian
Novelist
#Time
#People
#Youth
#Freedom
#Joy
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,
Canadian
Novelist
#Religion
#Saints
#Catholicism
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
Margaret Atwood,
Canadian
Novelist
#Writer