“ I almost gasp: he's said a forbidden word. Sterile. There is no such thing as a sterile man anymore, not officially. There are only women who are fruitful and women who are barren, that's the law. Margaret Atwood
“ How dare she show herself to be everything he was so annoyed with her for not being? Margaret Atwood
“ Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock. Margaret Atwood
“ He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't… Margaret Atwood
“ He was entitled to his own versions, his own conjurings. as I am. I may have served his ends, but he served mine as well. Margaret Atwood
“ CELLNow look objectively. You have toadmit the cancer cell is beautiful.If it were a flower, you'd say, with its mauve centre and pink petalsof if a cover for a pulpy thirtiessci-fi magazine. as an al… Margaret Atwood
“ Being here with him is safety; it's a cave, where we huddle together while the storm goes on outside. This is a delusion, of course. This room is one of the most dangerous places I could be. Margaret Atwood
“ At night, Toby breathed herself in. Her new self. Her skin smelled like honey and salt. And earth Margaret Atwood
“ All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard. 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, capt… Margaret Atwood
“ A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness. Margaret Atwood
“ All those paintings of women, in art galleries, surprised at private moments. Nymph Sleeping. Susanna and the Elders. Woman bathing, one foot in a tin tub - Renoir, or was it Degas? both, both women p… Margaret Atwood
