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“There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.”

Margaret Atwood

Source: Negotiating with the Dead

“But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.”

Margaret Atwood

“You can think clearly only with your clothes on.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 143)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“I am not your justification for existence.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

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

Margaret Atwood

Source: CAT'S EYE.

“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”

Margaret Atwood book Alias Grace

Source: Alias Grace

“If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“Potential has a shelf life.”

Margaret Atwood

Source: CAT'S EYE.

“A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.”

Margaret Atwood

Source: The Tent

“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”

Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood

Source: The Year of the Flood

“You think I'm not a goddess?
Try me.
This is a torch song.
Touch me and you'll burn.”

Margaret Atwood

“I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.”

Margaret Atwood book Surfacing

Surfacing (1972) p. 107 <br class="br">The premise for this quote is now known to be a linguistic myth stemming from the early 20th century work of Franz Boas. This quote by Atwood has been cited as an example of the perpetuation of this myth https://books.google.ca/books/about/White_Lies_about_the_Inuit.html?id=i-osjdNH3g8C. <br class="br">Variant: The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

“I feel like the word shatter.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.”

Margaret Atwood

Source: CAT'S EYE.

“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.”

Margaret Atwood

“This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin