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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
- Margaret Atwood
#Gift
#Silence
#Speech
#Together
#Voice
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
#Divorce
#Less
#Like
#Survive
#You
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
#Crystal
#Good
#Me
#Poetry
#Problems
People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.
- Margaret Atwood
#Digital
#Everything
#People
#Technology
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
#People
#Question
#Science
#Tools
#Want
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.
- Margaret Atwood
#Back
#Canada
#Safe
#True
#War
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
#Art
#Artist
#First
#Loyalty
#Your
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
#Eating
#Environmental
#Intelligence
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
#Because
#Choose
#Going
#Religion
#Saints
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
#Book
#Early
#Harvard
#Society
#Tale
Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.
- Margaret Atwood
#Dystopia
#Go
#Know
#People
#Right
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
- Margaret Atwood
#Born
#Man
#Powerful
#Still
#Woman
Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.
- Margaret Atwood
#Die
#Hate
#Sooner Or Later
#Space
#Your
Gardening is not a rational act.
- Margaret Atwood
#Act
#Gardening
#Rational
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
- Margaret Atwood
#Could
#Fiction
#Going
#See
#Which
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
- Margaret Atwood
#Adult
#Age
#Belief
#Everyone
#I Am
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
- Margaret Atwood
#Better
#Optimism
#Realist
#Reality
#Than
A word after a word after a word is power.
- Margaret Atwood
#After
#Power
#Word
Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
- Margaret Atwood
#Dark Side
#Dark
#Human
#Side
#Technology
If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.
- Margaret Atwood
#Moment
#Perfect
#Routine
#Waiting
#Will
You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
- Margaret Atwood
#Going
#Human
#Never
#Plan
#Storytelling
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.
- Margaret Atwood
#Believe
#Dead
#Democracy
#Practice
#Will
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
#Hope
#Human
#People
#Race
#Realize
#Will
War is what happens when language fails.
- Margaret Atwood
#Fails
#Happens
#Language
#War
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
- Margaret Atwood
#Find
#Meaning
#Myths
#Own
#Time
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
- Margaret Atwood
#Answers
#Literature
#Pose
#Questions
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
- Margaret Atwood
#Blindness
#Eye For An Eye
#Eye
#More
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
- Margaret Atwood
#Important
#Love
#Snow
#Valentine's Day
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
- Margaret Atwood
#Day
#End Of The Day
#End
#Gardening
#Smell
#You
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