A truth should exist, it should not be usedlike this. If I love Louis that a fact or a weapon?

— Margaret Atwood

At some indeterminate point in their life cycles, they cause themselves to be placed in artificial stone or wooden cocoons, or chrysalises. They have an idea that they will someday emerge from these in an altered state, which they symbolize with carvings of themselves with wings. However, we did not observe that any had actually done so.

— Margaret Atwood

A voice is a human gift it should be cherished and used to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

— Margaret Atwood

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

— Margaret Atwood

A word after a word after a word is power.

— Margaret Atwood

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.

— Margaret Atwood

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I was never when I was not one.

— Margaret Atwood

Being here with him is safety; it's a cave, where we huddle together while the storm goes on outside. This is a delusion, of course. This room is one of the most dangerous places I could be.

— Margaret Atwood

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

— Margaret Atwood

Bless you. Be careful. Anyone intending to meddle with words needs such blessing, such warning.

— Margaret Atwood