1281: Margaret Atwood
1969
“I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I’d get out of it myself if I could, though you’ve got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.”
1969
“I don’t consider it feminism; I just consider it social realism.”
1971
“you fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye”
1981
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
1985
“Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.”
2000
“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”
2019
“As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
2025
“Words themselves have felt under such threat.”
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