Quotes from Margaret Atwood

friendship was always contingent.

I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.

A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.

This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.

The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that could change at any moment.

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bi...; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up.

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love