Atwood, Margaret

“A Question Of Metamorphosis”


• Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
• If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, “How’s the little lady today!” you will probably cringe....
as quoted in Contemporary Poets, 3rd ed.


• I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much r...
Dancing Girls


• Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that is wrong. They k...
“Dancing On the Edge of the Precipice”


• The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not “Am I really that oppressed?” but “Am I reall...
“Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother”


• Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the ...
“The Female Body”


• The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panti-girdle, crinoline, ca...
The Handmaid’s Tale


• We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?
• As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us fr...
“The Man From Mars”


• She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the cate...
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