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If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Gardening is not a rational act.

Margaret Atwood

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Margaret Atwood

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Margaret Atwood

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

Margaret Atwood

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Margaret Atwood

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Margaret Atwood

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.

Margaret Atwood

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

Margaret Atwood

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

Margaret Atwood

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Margaret Atwood

I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

Margaret Atwood

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

Margaret Atwood

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Margaret Atwood

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

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

Margaret Atwood

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

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

Margaret Atwood

The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.

Margaret Atwood

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

Margaret Atwood

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

Margaret Atwood

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Margaret Atwood

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Margaret Atwood

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Margaret Atwood

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

Margaret Atwood

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

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

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

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

Margaret Atwood

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

Margaret Atwood

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

A word after a word after a word is power.

Margaret Atwood

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Margaret Atwood

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

Margaret Atwood

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Margaret Atwood