Margaret Atwood Quotes

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

I will never stop complaining.

Nuts!

My brain is fine.

We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted.

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing. I power wash everything: my wife, the mailman with the f-cking mail, power wash his ass, f-ck my mail up, I don't care.

By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?

I tried to tell you. You said you didn't care, remember?" A muscle ticked below his eye. "You should have told me anyway." "While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I'm Disease, not Stupid.

When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.

My mind is turning into kind of a fine gelatinous ball of pepper

I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the paint on new cars and beat up well-tended children. It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

That night it felt that somehow by flicking them off the roof, the matches would burn down everything, the sparks from the tips of the flames, torching the world and all the heartbroken people in it.

Before I could cry or scream I whirled around and stalked to my bedroom,slamming the door behind me. I hope they all drown. "Zoey your mother and I need to speak with you." Great. Clearly they didn't drown.

If no words come, you can always give him the finger.

Let no act be done without purpose.

I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with me, I shall give you no aid of any kind, nor shall I assist you, and I shall do whatever is in my power to frustrate your plans and devices.' And then she added, with feeling, 'Idiot.

Back off, boys. You don't want to mess with an out-of-work secretary. We're real testy.

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.