Margaret Atwood

The small details of life often hide a great significance. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#life

She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#humor #age

This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#age

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning - human meaning, that is - is defined by them. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#civilization #culture #art

When you alter yourself, the alterations become the truth... ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#change

I thought, men who changed their names were likely to be con-men, criminals, undercover agents or magicians, whereas women who changed their names were probably just married. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#change

Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God's great dance of proteins. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#death

Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures—they all have families and ancestors, just like people. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#family

What fiendishness went on in kitchens across the country, in the name of providing food! ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#food

In those timeless years between infancy and, say, seven what is has always been: in that way children inhabit the realm of myth. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#imagination