Quotations by Margaret Atwood

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

- Cat's Eye, 1988

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all; but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

- "The Age of Lead" Wilderness Trips