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Margaret Atwood Quotes

Margaret Atwood quotes

Canadian Novelist, Writer, Poet November 18, 1939

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The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs—it's been documented—discover if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier and the small frog appears much larger than it really is." So?" So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at... Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "They are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though..."
They are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though if they'd been different people they might have been happier. Margaret Atwood
So many crucial events take place behind people’s backs, when they aren’t in a position to watch: birth and death, for instance. And the temporary oblivion of sex. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "her face might be kindly if she would smile"
her face might be kindly if she would smile Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "Possible, impossible. What could be done? We thought we had..."
Possible, impossible. What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy? Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were..."
We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy? Margaret Atwood
In pictures like these there are always empty shoes. It's the shoes that get to me. Sad, that innocent daily task - putting your shoes on your feet, in the firm belief that you'll be going somewhere. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the..."
Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together. Margaret Atwood
What do you want me to do?” he whispers into the empty air. It’s hard to know. Oh Jimmy, you were so funny. Don’t let me down. From habit he lifts his watch; it shows him its blank face. Zero hour, Snowman thinks. Time to go. Margaret Atwood
Never mind. Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of us aas real girls, real flesh and blood, real pain, real injustice. That might be too upsetting. Just discard the sordid part. Consider us pure symbol. We're no more real than money. Margaret Atwood
In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me. Margaret Atwood
There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They merely drenched you or struck you like lightning and moved on, mindless as blizzards. Or they were like rocks, a line of sharp slippery rocks with jagged edges. You could walk with care along between the rocks, picking your steps, and if you slipped you'd fall and cut yourself, but it was no use... Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "The French are connoisseurs of sadness, they know all kinds...."
The French are connoisseurs of sadness, they know all kinds. This is why they have bidets. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "How were we to know we were happy?"
How were we to know we were happy? Margaret Atwood
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. We put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees, we scrawl them on washroom walls. It's all the same impulse. What do we hope from it? Applause, envy, respect? Or simply attention, of any kind we can get? At the very least we want a witness. We can't... Margaret Atwood

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