“ Is that how we lived, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is going on is as usual. Even this is as usual, now.We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the sam… Margaret Atwood
“ In those timeless years between infancy and, say, seven what is has always been: in that way children inhabit the realm of myth. Margaret Atwood
“ In the burned house I am eating breakfast.You understand? There is no house, there is no breakfast,yet here I am Margaret Atwood
“ If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say. Margaret Atwood
“ I walk away from her, guilt on my hands, absolving myself: I'm a good person. She could have been dying. No one else stopped.I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good.I know too much to… Margaret Atwood
“ I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born. Margaret Atwood
“ I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will. Margaret Atwood
“ I tell myself it doesn't matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong, it does matter. Margaret Atwood
“ I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves. Margaret Atwood
“ I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would be allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I'm watery, I ripple, from moment to mome… Margaret Atwood
“ I sang out the words unflinchingly though, as I stomped around the toadstool in clouds of church-basement dust, with a damp Gnome hand clutched in each of mine. Margaret Atwood
“ I remember walking in art galleries, through the nineteenth century: the obsession they had then with harems. Dozens of paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans, turbans on their heads or velv… Margaret Atwood
“ I remember a television program I saw once... The program was a documentary, about one of those wars. They interviewed people and showed clips from films of the time, black and white, and still photos… Margaret Atwood
“ I never had a favourite letter that began my name - I for Iris - because I was everybody's letter. Margaret Atwood
“ I listened humbly, resentfully. I knew I did not have charm. Neither Laura nor I had it. We were too secretive for charm, or else too blunt. We’d never learned it, because Reenie had spoiled us. She f… Margaret Atwood
“ I have the window seat. In the two seats beside me are two old ladies, old women, each with a knitted cardigan, each with yellowy-white hair and thick-lensed glasses with a chain for around the neck,… Margaret Atwood
“ I had a boyfriend once who sent me--in a plastic bag, so it wouldn't drip--a real cow's heart with a real arrow stuck through it. As you may divine, he knew I was interested in poetry. Margaret Atwood
