Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Margaret Atwood quotes, Margaret Atwood sayings, and Margaret Atwood proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. Margaret Atwood
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You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself. Margaret Atwood
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A divorce is like an amputation: You survive it, but there's less of you.Margaret Atwood
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The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.Margaret Atwood
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The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.Margaret Atwood
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War is what happens when language fails.Margaret Atwood
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.Margaret Atwood
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All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.Margaret Atwood
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Gardening is not a rational act.Margaret Atwood
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There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.Margaret Atwood
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Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.Margaret Atwood
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It's crowded, which pleases me. Salesladies intimidate me, I don't like to be caught shopping.Margaret Atwood
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.Margaret Atwood
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Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows.Margaret Atwood
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The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.Margaret Atwood
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Potential has a shelf life.Margaret Atwood
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A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.Margaret Atwood
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To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.Margaret Atwood
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.Margaret Atwood
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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
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Modesty is invisibility. Never forget it. To be seen to be seen is to be penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.Margaret Atwood
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I was sand, I was snow, written on, rewritten, smoothed over.Margaret Atwood
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If someone wants to suck your toes, those toes should be worth sucking.Margaret Atwood
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There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.Margaret Atwood
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The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.Margaret Atwood
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War is what happens when language fails.Margaret Atwood
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This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.Margaret Atwood
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.Margaret Atwood
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Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.Margaret Atwood