The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds. Margaret Atwood More Quotes by Margaret Atwood More Quotes From Margaret Atwood A word after a word after a word is power. Margaret Atwood reading inspirational life The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are malnourished all the time, whose bodies are being starved. Margaret Atwood body people world There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. Margaret Atwood handy justify Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do you have to offer me I can't find otherwise except humiliation? Which I no longer need. Margaret Atwood making-love writing men So much better to travel than to arrive. Margaret Atwood He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation. Margaret Atwood guilt needed expectations But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. Margaret Atwood plot use people There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive. Margaret Atwood hunger alive said One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other. Margaret Atwood four unique together Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important. Margaret Atwood important paper a handful of crumpled stars Margaret Atwood handful stars I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. Margaret Atwood sleep forget past What you get is no longer what you see. Margaret Atwood Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing. Margaret Atwood mood waiting writing A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. Margaret Atwood divorce broken-heart lost-love If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice. Margaret Atwood choices want country Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge. Margaret Atwood bears want fall When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail. Margaret Atwood locks sleep way There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it. Margaret Atwood anarchy aunt freedom This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love. Margaret Atwood girl speak men
