Margaret Atwood Quote Generator

1.  "'Jimmy, look at it realistically. You can't couple a minimum access to food with an expanding population indefinitely. Homo sapiens doesn't seem to be able to cut himself off at the supply end. He's one of the few species that doesn't limit reproduction in the face of dwindling resources. In other words - and up to a point, of course - the less we eat, the more we fuck.' 'How to do you account for that?' said Jimmy 'Imagination,' said Crake. 'Men can imagine their own deaths...human beings hope they can stick their souls into someone else...and live on forever.'" - Margaret Atwood

2.  "In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me." - Margaret Atwood

3.  "What you get is no longer what you see." - Margaret Atwood

4.  "'All it takes,' said Crake, 'is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it's game over forever.'" - Margaret Atwood

5.  "'Our heaven is their hell', said God. 'I like a balanced universe.'" - Margaret Atwood

6.  "What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice do I have? By the time you read this last page, that - if anywhere - is the only place I will be." - Margaret Atwood

7.  "There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt." - Margaret Atwood

8.  "The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle down, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals." - Margaret Atwood

9.  "We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly." - Margaret Atwood

10.  "A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness." - Margaret Atwood