Margaret Atwood Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.”

“The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.”

“Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.”

“I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.”

“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”

“Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.”

“Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.”

“If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.”

“Gardening is not a rational act.”

“When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.”