Margaret Atwood Quotes about Life

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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Margaret Atwood

Inspirational, Life, Powerful

A word after a word after a word is power.

Margaret Atwood

Inspirational, Life, Reading

"Spelling". Poem by Margaret Atwood, www.poemhunter.com.

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.

Margaret Atwood

Life, Distance, Farewell

Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.76, Anchor

It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

Margaret Atwood

Life, Sunset, Ice

Margaret Atwood (2014). “Stone Mattress: Nine Tales”, p.16, Anchor

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

Margaret Atwood

Life, Heart, Mind

Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.329, Anchor

Either I'm alive or I'm dying, she said to Daniel. Please don't feel you can't tell me. Which is it? Which does it feel like? said Daniel. He patted her hand. You're not dead yet. You're a lot more alive than many people. This isn't good enough for Rennie. She wants something definite, the real truth, one way or the other. Then she will know what she should do next. It's this suspension, hanging in a void, this half-life she can't bear. She can't bear not knowing. She doesn't want to know.

Margaret Atwood

Life, Truth, Real

Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bodily Harm”, p.56, Simon and Schuster