Margaret Atwood
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
-Margaret Atwood
age
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
freedom
Gardening is not a rational act.
-Margaret Atwood
gardening
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
hope
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
-Margaret Atwood
love
A word after a word after a word is power.
-Margaret Atwood
power
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
-Margaret Atwood
power
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.
-Margaret Atwood
relationship
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
religion
If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.
-Margaret Atwood
respect
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
-Margaret Atwood
science
Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.
-Margaret Atwood
society
War is what happens when language fails.
-Margaret Atwood
war
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
-Margaret Atwood
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