“ What were prizes but one more level of control imposed on Art by the establishment? Margaret Atwood
“ Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen—to be —is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable. Margaret Atwood
“ Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their min… Margaret Atwood
“ According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they’re less capable of indignation and better at being humiliated, for what is old age but one long string of indignities? What person of integri… Margaret Atwood
“ Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. Margaret Atwood
“ There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way. Margaret Atwood
“ I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather no shadow unless there is also light. Margaret Atwood
“ And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I was to have a happy ending, and it was just like a book; and I wondered what books she'd been reading. Margaret Atwood
“ The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. —the archaic language of unrequited love. I was irritated with such words, which rendered the unha… Margaret Atwood
“ How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to ha… Margaret Atwood
“ If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. Margaret Atwood
“ You cynical shit, he told himself. Then he started to weep. Don't be so fucking sentimental, Crake used to tell him. But why not? Why shouldn't he be sentimental? It wasn't as if there was anyone arou… Margaret Atwood
“ So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means. Margaret Atwood
“ It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor's wife should cut them all out and paste them into her scrapbook. Margaret Atwood
“ Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. We put on display our framed photographs, our par… Margaret Atwood
