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Margaret Atwood

13 quotes

Details about Margaret Atwood's life are scarce, but their observations have traveled far and wide. Their thinking spans from Power to War, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Our collection holds 14 quotes from Margaret Atwood, each offering a different angle on Power, War, Valentinesday, Society, and Science. Among their most shared lines: "Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."

“I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.”

— Margaret Atwood

Freedom

All Quotes by Margaret Atwood

“I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.”

— Margaret Atwood

Hope

“Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.”

— Margaret Atwood

Society

“I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.”

— Margaret Atwood

Freedom

“Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.”

— Margaret Atwood

Power

“I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.”

— Margaret Atwood

Relationship

“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.”

— Margaret Atwood

Love

“A word after a word after a word is power.”

— Margaret Atwood

Power

“War is what happens when language fails.”

— Margaret Atwood

War

“Gardening is not a rational act.”

— Margaret Atwood

Gardening

“Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.”

— Margaret Atwood

Science

“Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”

— Margaret Atwood

Age

“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

Religion

“If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.”

— Margaret Atwood

Respect