Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSCis a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. In 2001, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 November 1939
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
Margaret Atwood quotes about
You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you
Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.
Inside the peach, there is a stone.
There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.
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.
Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.
When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end.
Life's not fair; why should I be?
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.