"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
Margaret AtwoodTiny Panda Quotes
Quotes by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood, born on November 18, 1939, in Ottawa, Canada, is a prolific author whose work spans novels, poetry, and essays. Renowned for her sharp wit and profound insights into society, Atwood gained international acclaim for her dystopian novel, "The Handmaid's Tale," which explores themes of gender and power. A staunch advocate for environmental and social issues, her literary contributions extend beyond fiction to commentary on contemporary challenges. Atwood’s legacy as a literary giant and feminist voice continues to resonate, inspiring readers worldwide.
23 quotes found
"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"The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated."
Margaret Atwood"If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it."
Margaret Atwood"The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems."
Margaret Atwood
"I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do."
Margaret Atwood
"I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back."
Margaret Atwood"As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist."
Margaret Atwood"Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot."
Margaret Atwood"I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact."
Margaret Atwood"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love."
Margaret Atwood
"I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me."
Margaret Atwood
"When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float."
Margaret Atwood"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"Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel."
Margaret Atwood"Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people."
Margaret Atwood"Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth."
Margaret Atwood
"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."
Margaret Atwood
"Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral."
Margaret Atwood
"Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear."
Margaret Atwood