Here are some notable Margaret Atwood quotes, spanning her fiction, poetry, and public commentary:
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From Her Fiction
- “A word after a word after a word is power.”
— From her poetry collection “Spelling” - “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
— The Handmaid’s Tale (“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”) - “Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.”
— The Handmaid’s Tale - “War is what happens when language fails.”
— The Robber Bride - “You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”
— The Blind Assassin
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From Interviews and Speeches
- “A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used.”
- “In the end, we’ll all become stories.”
- “The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.”
- “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
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On Society and Power
- “Every totalitarian government is afraid of art.”
- “Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.”
— The Handmaid’s Tale - “When we think of the past, it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
— The Handmaid’s Tale
Would you like quotes specific to feminism, dystopia, writing, or a particular book like The Handmaid’s Tale or Oryx and Crake?
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