Margaret Atwood

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#children

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#feminism #men

Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#life

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#stupidity #stupidity

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#stories #freedom

You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#relationships #relationships

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#love #relationships #humor

A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#poetry #truth #love

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#senses #language

Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#love #love