Margaret Atwood Quotes (276 Quotes)
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- I am not your justification for existence.
(Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale")
- I've learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, said Aunt Lydia, you get too attached to this material world and you forget about spiritual values.
(Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale")
- The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand.
(Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale")
- We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
(Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale")
- I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
(Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale")
- Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.
(Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale")
- The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil
(Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale")
- We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?
(Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale")
- I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I'd turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.
(Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale")
- Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.
(Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale")
- The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.
(Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale")
- We've learned to see the world in gasps.
(Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale")
- I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public display of privates. What is it for? What purposes of reassurance does it serve? The flashing of a badge, look, everyone, all is in order, I belong here. Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women? Some form of unbuttoning, some split-crotch routine, just as casual. A doglike sniffing.
(Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale")
- My red skirt is hitched up to my waist, though no higher. Below it the Commander is fucking. What he is fucking is the lower part of my body.
(Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale")
- There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.
(Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale")
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