Margaret Atwood Quotes


Margaret Atwood

Or perhaps she`s just softening me up: she`s a Baptist, she`d like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it`s too late. That kind of thing doesn`t run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you`d call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn`t pay to get too mixed up with him.

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

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there`s less of you

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.






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