“ On impulse he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different. He has no talent for monotony. Margaret Atwood
“ Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the ge… Margaret Atwood
“ Now, it's full night, clear, moonless and filled with stars, which are not eternal as we once thought, which are not where we think they are. If they were sounds, they would be echoes, of something th… Margaret Atwood
“ Now she said, I’m up to the four-letter words. And I said, You mean the dirty ones, like shit? And she laughed and said, Worse ones than that. And I said, You mean the c-word and the f-word? and she s… Margaret Atwood
“ Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them. Margaret Atwood
“ No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do badly by one another, we did as well… Margaret Atwood
“ No empire imposed by force or otherwise has ever been without this feature: control of the indigenous by members of their own group. In the case of Gilead, there were many women willing to serve as Au… Margaret Atwood
“ Nature demands variety, for men. It stands to reason, it's a part of the procreational strategy. It's Nature's Plan. Women know that instinctively. Why did they buy so many different clothes, in the o… Margaret Atwood
“ My red skirt is hitched up to my waist, though no higher. Below it the Commander is fucking. What he is fucking is the lower part of my body. Margaret Atwood
“ My mother took the train to Halifax to see my father off. It was crammed with men en route to the Front; she could not get a sleeper, so she travelled sitting up. There were feet in the aisles, and bu… Margaret Atwood
“ More often than not, she acted as if she wanted to protect him, from the image of herself--herself in the past. She liked to keep only the bright side of herself turned towards him. She liked to shine… Margaret Atwood
“ More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one. Margaret Atwood
“ Money isn't the only thing that must flow and circulate in order to have good value: good turns and gifts must flow and circulate . . . for any social system to remain in balance. Margaret Atwood
“ Moira had power now, she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.I think we found this frightening.Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy. Already w… Margaret Atwood
“ Messy love is better than none,I guess. I'm no authorityon sane living.Which is all trueand no hep at all, becausethis form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember after… Margaret Atwood
