Margaret Atwood is a famous Novelist from Canada, he/she is 85 years old and still alive, born November 18, 1939.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding.
Our collection contains 28 quotes who is written / told by Margaret, under the main topic Gardening.
28 Famous quotes by Margaret Atwood
"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise"
"Never pray for justice, because you might get some"
"A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together"
"War is what happens when language fails"
"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
"Gardening is not a rational act"
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia"
"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"
"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness"
"A word after a word after a word is power"
"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly"
"For years I wanted to be older, and now I am"
"We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups"
"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt"
"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own"
"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"
"Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one"
"A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you"
"This above all, to refuse to be a victim"
"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"
"The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies"
"Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time"
"You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer"
"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love"
"Canada was built on dead beavers"
"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason"
"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose"
"Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself"
