“ How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste. Margaret Atwood
“ Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mother's love - the love she still continued to believe in, the love that had followed her through the… Margaret Atwood
“ Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves. Margaret Atwood
“ Change can be accommodated by any system depending on its rate, Crake used to say. Touch your head to a wall, nothing happens, but if the same head hits the wall at ninety miles an hour, it's red pain… Margaret Atwood
“ A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women. Not that your father wasn't a nice guy and all, but... there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently abs… Margaret Atwood
“ I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phr… Margaret Atwood
“ The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I do… Margaret Atwood
“ Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but a… Margaret Atwood
“ Ah men,why do you want all this attention?I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutelynecessary. What do you have to offer meI can't find otherwiseexcept humiliation? Which I no… Margaret Atwood
“ But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life. Margaret Atwood
“ You can't change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really wanted to do Margaret Atwood
