“ Women, and what went on under their collars. Hotness and coldness, coming and going in the strange musky flowery variable-weather country inside their clothes -- mysterious, important, uncontrollable.… Margaret Atwood
“ Within each of these categories, the principle was the same: rarity and beauty increased value. Margaret Atwood
“ With you I could havemore than one skin,a blank interior, a repertoireof untold stories,a fresh beginning. Margaret Atwood
“ With a room of his own, a room at the top, he could proffer a temporary refuge to some lovely, fatigued, world-weary, sophisticated, black-turtlenecked, heavily-eyelinered girl he might lure up the st… Margaret Atwood
“ Winter is not so dangerous. I need hardness, cold, rigidity; not this heaviness, as if I'm a melon on a stem, this liquid ripeness. The Margaret Atwood
“ William sits opposite her, drinking water from a Murray’s glass with a trace of lipstick on the rim. His fingers hold the glass, his other hand lies on the table, his neck comes out of his shirt colla… Margaret Atwood
“ Why is war so much like a practical joke? she thinks. Hiding behind bushes, leaping out, with not much difference between Boo! and Bang! except the blood. Margaret Atwood
“ Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same. Margaret Atwood
“ Why do men want to kill the bodies of other men? Women don't want to kill the bodies of other women. Margaret Atwood
“ Who is to say that prayers have any effect? On the other hand, who is to say they don't? I picture the gods, diddling around on Olympus, wallowing in the nectar and ambrosia and the aroma of burning b… Margaret Atwood
“ While in a vintage restaurant...the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into. Margaret Atwood
“ While I read, the Commander sits and watches me doing it, without speaking but also without taking his eyes off me. This watching is a curiously sexual act, and I feel undressed while he does it. Margaret Atwood
“ Which does a man prefer? Bacon and eggs, or worship? Sometimes one, sometimes the other, depending how hungry he is. Margaret Atwood
“ Where I am is not a prison but a privilege, as Aunt Lydia said, who is in love with either/or. Margaret Atwood
“ When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; Margaret Atwood
“ When they came to harvest my corpse(open your mouth, close your eyes)cut my body from the rope,surprise, surprise:I was still alive.Tough luck, folks,I know the law:you can't execute me twicefor the s… Margaret Atwood
“ When in doubt, when flat on your back, you can look at the ceiling. Who knows what you may see, up there? Funeral wreaths and angels, constellations of dust, stellar or otherwise, the puzzles left by… Margaret Atwood
