Margaret Atwood Quotes
born 1939 Canada
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born 18 November 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.
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Also known as: Atwood, Margaret, Nolite te bastardes carborundorum
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I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
War is what happens when language fails.
Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
Freedom, like everything else, is relative.
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.
She attracted people he called "sponges".
The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it’s one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.
A movie about the past is not the same as the past.
You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.
A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there’s less of you.
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Margaret Atwood (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.