Margaret Atwood Quotes

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born 18 November 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.

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Alternative Names: Margaret Eleanor Atwood • Marqaret Etvud

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Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went.
No, why?
You moved.
Just don't move.

we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

The world that we think we see
is only our best guess.

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next — if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions — you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

Margaret Atwood Quotes

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