Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done. Margaret Atwood
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
I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance. Margaret Atwood
Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time. Margaret Atwood
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. Margaret Atwood
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. Margaret Atwood
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
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. Margaret Atwood
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
The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' Margaret Atwood
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
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. Margaret Atwood