INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES MARGARET ATWOOD

“A word after a word after a word is power.”

“In the end, we’ll all become stories.”

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

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

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

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

“We were the children of the Gap; the generation that grew up between the two great silences.”

“The story appears to make sense. So you stop there.”

“Art is for anyone. It just isn’t for everyone.”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” ONE SMALL ACTION CAN CHANGE THE WORLD QUOTE

“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.”

“I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”

“A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.”

“Stupidity is not the same as ignorance, Miss Halfpenny, but when one disregards information one has become self-enclosed in one’s own mind.”

“You can’t pretend that everyone is the same and that everyone should be treated the same. Change occurs through difference.”

“A person is defined not only by what she thinks but and what she has lost, what has been wrenched from her. A person is also defined by what she keeps.”

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”

“You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”