“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
— Margaret Atwood
“A lot of people facing fascism didn’t become fascists. I don’t happen to believe that we are all monsters.”
— Margaret Atwood
“The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.”
— Margaret Atwood
“War is what happens when language fails.”
— Margaret Atwood
“The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.”
— Margaret Atwood
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.”
— Margaret Atwood
“I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.”
— Margaret Atwood
“Do not let the bastards grind you down.”
— Margaret Atwood