Each form has its pluses and its minuses. Margaret Atwood More Quotes by Margaret Atwood More Quotes From Margaret Atwood Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays. Margaret Atwood nicepeoplethinking You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn. Margaret Atwood songtryingthinking Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. Margaret Atwood eyebrokenknowing I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something. Margaret Atwood nameswantway If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. Margaret Atwood annoyingaliveifs It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons. Margaret Atwood drunkreasonmen These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency. Margaret Atwood vitaminsfunny-lifereason Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. Margaret Atwood lack-of-lovelovesex We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy? Margaret Atwood problemknows As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before. Margaret Atwood knownimagine Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We. Margaret Atwood graduationinspirationalmoving I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems. Margaret Atwood crystalsproblemthinking Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily. Margaret Atwood linesdictatorshipartist 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 understandingjoypeople Do back exercises. Pain is distracting. Margaret Atwood painexercisewriting This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Margaret Atwood refusevictim Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown. Margaret Atwood levelseye As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the ones on low-lying islands off the coast of India are being swept away, you know, it's already happening to some people. We happen to be very lucky so far. Margaret Atwood islandslyingpeople I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world opening up to them through books they study. The negatives may include bad experiences kids have - if they don't like the book or the teacher, or the way the book is taught. Margaret Atwood readingteacherbook I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a lot of attention to editors, but in a different way. They sometimes catch mistakes and help with the order of poems in a book. I do not underestimate them! Indeed, I have been one myself. Margaret Atwood viewsmistakebook
