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Margaret Atwood Quotes

Canadian - Novelist | November 18, 1939 -

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

Age I Am Belief Everyone Adult Mine

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Margaret Atwood

You Overcome Need Scary Heroes

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

Margaret Atwood

Leader Woman Man Think Powerful

A word after a word after a word is power.

Margaret Atwood

Power Word After

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going to happen.

Margaret Atwood

Science Hate You Far Away Go Never

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Margaret Atwood

Eye More Blindness Eye For An Eye

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Margaret Atwood

Canada Mental Illness Schizophrenia

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Margaret Atwood

Victim Above Refuse

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

Margaret Atwood

Beginning Nationalism Boring Canadian

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

Margaret Atwood

Technology Dark Dark Side Human Side

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.

Margaret Atwood

Science Mistake Thinking Tools Bad

If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Margaret Atwood

Yourself You Person Room Behave

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