The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panty-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head.
—Margaret Atwood
Topics: Man, Body, Mankind, Women
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
Topics: Youth
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
—Margaret Atwood
Topics: Society
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
—Margaret Atwood
Topics: Humanity, Imagination
Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.
—Margaret Atwood
Topics: Consequences
She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn’t a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.
—Margaret Atwood
Topics: Men, Women, Men & Women
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
—Margaret Atwood
Topics: Cause, Snow, Love, Now
Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.
—Margaret Atwood
Topics: Men
All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye
—Margaret Atwood
Topics: Father
A word after a word after a word is power.
—Margaret Atwood
Topics: Power
Canada was built on dead beavers.
—Margaret Atwood
Topics: Canada
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt
—Margaret Atwood
Topics: Gardening
At the very least we want witness. We can’t stand the idea of our own voice falling silent finally, like a radio running down.
—Margaret Atwood
A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there is less of you.
—Margaret Atwood
Topics: Marriage, Divorce
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose
—Margaret Atwood
Topics: Literature
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
Topics: Choice
What you get is no longer what you see.
—Margaret Atwood
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
—Margaret Atwood
Topics: Justice
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
—Margaret Atwood
Topics: Canada
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Robertson Davies Canadian Novelist, Playwright
- Norman Mailer American Novelist, Journalist
- Marshall Mcluhan Canadian Thinker
- Pierre Trudeau Canadian Statesman
- Cynthia Ozick American Novelist, Essayist
- Eric Hobsbawm British Historian
- Harold Bloom American Literary Critic, Author
- Jonathan Safran Foer American Novelist
- Paul Auster American Novelist, Poet
- John Barth American Novelist
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