“ Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along. Margaret Atwood
“ Actually, they took turns trying to avoid being the victims. That's the whole point about war! Margaret Atwood
“ Otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, would go wandering off on a trajectory of his own, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by exe… Margaret Atwood
“ How much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that the one you love so passionately won't or can'… Margaret Atwood
“ All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All of them?Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, captur… Margaret Atwood
“ 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
“ You young people don't appreciate things, she'd say. You don't know what we had to go through, just to get you where you are. Look at him, slicing up the carrots. Don't you know how many women's lives… Margaret Atwood
“ What we prayed for was emptiness, so we would be worthy to be filled: with grace, with love, with self-denial, semen and babies. Margaret Atwood
“ What people want is perfection, said the man. In themselves. But they need the steps to it to be pointed out, said the woman. In a simple order, said the man. With encouragement, said the woman. And a… Margaret Atwood
“ Today I speak to my bones as I would speak to a dog. I want to go up the stairs, I tell them. Up, up, up, with one leg dragging. Is the ache deep in the bones, this elusive pain? Does that mean it wil… Margaret Atwood
“ To feel that empty, again, again. I listen to my heart, wave upon wave, salty and red, continuing on and on, marking time. Margaret Atwood
“ There's just one thing I want you to remember. You know those chemicals women have in them, when they've got PMS? Well, men have the very same chemicals in them all the time. Margaret Atwood
“ There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They me… Margaret Atwood
“ There are several diseases of the memory. Forgetfulness of nouns, for instance, or of numbers. Or there are more complex amnesias. With one, you can lose your entire past; you start afresh, learning h… Margaret Atwood
