“ If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. Margaret Atwood
“ When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. Margaret Atwood
“ What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game… Margaret Atwood
“ Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Margaret Atwood
“ I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did it, all at once, without anyone knowing beforehand. If there had still been portable money, it would have been more difficult. It was af… Margaret Atwood
“ Had she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar hadn't quite believed it either, but it was a reassuring story: that the dead were not entirely dead… Margaret Atwood
“ The values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and America has always had mixed feelings about that. At one end of the spectrum is Thoreau, wishing to immer… Margaret Atwood
“ Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. Margaret Atwood
“ So when time had begun to run out on Adelia with no really acceptable husband in sight, she'd married money -- crude money, button money. She was expected to refine this money, like oil. Margaret Atwood
“ She’s the kind of woman who wants what she doesn’t have and gets what she wants and then despises what she gets. Margaret Atwood
“ Second-hand American was spreading over him in patches, like mange or lichen. He was infested, garbled, and I couldn't help him: it would take such time to heal, unearth him, scrape down to where he w… Margaret Atwood
