Margaret Atwood Quotes

You could call me a 'card-carrying feminist,' if there were a card to carry.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

Women wearing men's clothes are chic, men wearing women's clothes make us fall on the floor laughing.

Tell me again what we're doing here," I said, running a continuous scan of our surroundings. Fang popped some Cracker Jack into his mouth. "We're here to watch manly men do manly things." I followed Fang's line of sight: He was watching the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, who were not doing manly things, by any stretch of the imagination.

John McCain said that Sarah Palin is still a force in the Republican Party. Then he got in his car and backed over his mailbox.

I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.

Comedy is often about pain.

My brother is undoubtedly arrogant," Tyrion Lannister replied. "My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you?

Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.

The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation

There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the words “teeny weeny.

Everyone is broken a little, I think, and the most broken of all are those who pretend they are not.

Humor is the mistress of tears.

I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I... don't.

As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.