Margaret Atwood Quotes

… prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

My family and I survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005; we left my grandmother's flooding house, were refused shelter by a white family, and took refuge in trucks in an open field during a Category Five hurricane. I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive.

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.

People don't actually stay still, you know - when their area is a disaster, they go somewhere else, right? And that's just a natural human impulse.

Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.

I am very aware that there are many of you who have friends and loved ones in the areas affected by this storm who have been displaced or who have not yet been accounted for.

How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

I remember when I was in Los Angeles, and there was one of the very big earthquakes, and it was just absolute pandemonium. I mean the streets were just - people were crashing into each other, people were looting, in just a very short amount of time.

The time when people really want government is in an emergency.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

Our house was destroyed in 1943, and I moved the family to a cottage I owned before the war in the Bavarian Alps. This cottage was meant for a very few people, and at the end of the war, there were about 13 people in this very small house.

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

Between the summer of 2015 and spring 2016, Austria became one of the European countries most affected by the migration and refugee crisis.

South Floridians, we can relate to storms where you just brace and hold your breath and even when you're holding your breath you know the worst is coming.

There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.

I still don't know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.

Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once.

Professor,” Harry gasped. “Your bird — I couldn’t do anything — he just caught fire —