Margaret Atwood

"I exist in two places, here, and where you are."

- Margaret Atwood

"I exist in two places: Here and where you are."

- Margaret Atwood

"I exist in two places, here and where you are."

- 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

"Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized."

- Margaret Atwood

"What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much."

- Margaret Atwood

"You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave."

- Margaret Atwood

"War is what happens when language fails."

- Margaret Atwood

"If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word."

- Margaret Atwood

"A word after a word after a word is power."

- Margaret Atwood

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edge of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories."

- Margaret Atwood

"Don’t let the bastards grind you down."

- Margaret Atwood

"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing, in the end, can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does."

- Margaret Atwood

"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum."

- Margaret Atwood

"To live in prison is to live without mirrors."

- Margaret Atwood

"In spring, let the day's work reflect in the scent of dirt."

- Margaret Atwood

"What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?"

- Margaret Atwood

"When I was sixteen I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B. Billings, who said, “I can’t understand this at all, dear, so it must be good.”"

- Margaret Atwood

"Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does."

- Margaret Atwood

"In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school."

- Margaret Atwood

"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress."

- Margaret Atwood

"What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question."

- Margaret Atwood

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

- Margaret Atwood