Top 100 Margaret Quotes
#1. when I was still imaginary for him. Before we were married and I solidified.
Margaret Atwood
#2. Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
Margaret Drabble
#3. Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life.
Margaret Mead
#4. Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
Margaret Atwood
#5. Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
Margaret Mead
#6. Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.
Margaret Atwood
#7. Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.
Margaret Chase Smith
#8. Migration is a feature of globalisation. You can't stop it; so every time a political party says it is going to be tough on immigration, it fails to deliver and loses trust.
Margaret Hodge
#9. Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.
Margaret Atwood
#10. When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine
Margaret Thatcher
#11. I became a comedian because I didn't want to be bullied anymore. Onstage I was safe.
Margaret Cho
#12. No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.
Margaret Sanger
#13. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
Margaret Atwood
#14. I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.
Margaret Stohl
#15. Most of us discover early on that it's safer to hide behind prayers that can't be measured, petitions so nebulous they don't require intervention from God.
Margaret Feinberg
#16. You can't make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who becomes enraged when called by their right names.
Margaret Mitchell
#18. During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from outside it.
Margaret Thatcher
#19. This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.
Margaret Atwood
#20. she was beginning to emerge from the initial sex-induced coma created by him through
Margaret Atwood
#21. He just tarted up his misdemeanours and made them look respectable,
Margaret Atwood
#22. It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Margaret Anderson
#23. Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller's. She found thoughts dull that suggest that men are superior to animals or plants.
John Cage
#24. Red all over the cupboard, mirth rhymes with birth, oh to die of laughter.
Margaret Atwood
#25. Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.
Margaret Mead
#26. All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.
Margaret Fuller
#27. What confronts us, now the excitement's over, is our own failure.
Margaret Atwood
#28. Screw poetry, it's you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.
Margaret Atwood
#29. Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were.
It hasn't happened this morning, either.
Margaret Atwood
#30. There's a moon now, almost full. Good luck for owls; bad luck for rabbits, who often choose to cavort riskily but sexily in the moonlight, their brains buzzing with pheromones.
Margaret Atwood
#31. Hide nothing from your confessor ... a sick man can be cured only by revealing his wounds.
Margaret Of Cortona
#32. Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good.
Simon Hoggart
#33. Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.
Margaret Atwood
#34. She thinks you're stalking me."
"Why the hell would I do that? I see too much of your ugly mug as it is.
Margaret Watson
#35. If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.
Margaret Mitchell
#37. We hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months
Margaret Chan
#38. Every night I pray for a lovely, swoopy-haired homosexual to come to our school, in the same way that Margaret prayed for boobs and my grandfather prays for my eternal salvation.
David Levithan
#39. Being president of the United States is the most stressful, thankless job in the world and Margaret can't fathom why anyone would voluntarily pursue it.
Elin Hilderbrand
#41. God is not the voice in the whirlwind, God is the whirlwind.
Margaret Atwood
#42. Flint snorted. The kender was beginning to make sence, a fact that caused the dwarf to shake his head and wonder if maybe he shouldn't lie down somewhere out in the sun.
Margaret Weis
#43. The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#45. Powerful men don't take well to rejection. Rage could result. There
Margaret Atwood
#47. I've been prepared for almost anything; except absence, except silence.
Margaret Atwood
#48. There are two kinds of tales: one accurate but not true, the other true but not accurate.
Margaret George
#49. I think my parents knew before I did that I was going to be an actress, because I was doing impressions of Margaret Thatcher at the age of four.
Michelle Dockery
#50. There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
Margaret Mead
#51. It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can 'take over' as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.
Margaret Mahy
#52. You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.
Margaret Atwood
#54. Margaret had a face like the ass end of a gasoline truck and a body to match.
Stephen King
#55. You could tell a lot about a person from their fridge magnets, not that he'd thought much about them at the time.
Margaret Atwood
#56. Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.
Margaret Thatcher
#57. For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.
Margaret Chan
#58. Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.
Margaret Atwood
#59. The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.
Margaret Fuller
#62. In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.
Margaret Wertheim
#63. The girls in the stories make such fools of themselves. They are so weak. They fall helplessly in love with the wrong men, they give in, they are jilted. Then they cry.
Margaret Atwood
#64. The ancestral voices were prophesying war because ancestral voices never shut up, and they hate to be wrong, and war is a sure thing, sooner or later.
Margaret Atwood
#65. He was so tender, so infinitely soothing, she longed to stay in his arms forever. With such strong arms about her, surely nothing could harm her.
Margaret Mitchell
#66. I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'
Margaret Cho
#67. Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.
Margaret Atwood
#68. A wall that cannot be defended is no sooner built than ended.
Margaret Atwood
#69. I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher
#70. Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change.
Margaret Beckett
#71. And what do I know about humans? Only this: My name is Doloria Maria de la Cruz, and I'm not just the end of childhood. I'm the end of humanity. And if you come from the skies- I'm coming for you.
Margaret Stohl
#72. So now that we don't have different clothes," I say, "you merely have different women," This is irony, but he doesn't acknowledge it.
Margaret Atwood
#73. To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.
Margaret Atwood
#74. Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?
Margaret Cho
#75. It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.
Margaret Thatcher
#76. Men are sex machines, said Aunt Lydia, and not much more. They only want one thing. You must learn to manipulate them, for your own good.
Margaret Atwood
#77. Hardly anything is as exciting or as diverse, as strong a confirmation of life and hope and the universe's urge towards creativity, as a lively compost heap or the first draft of a novel.
Margaret Simons
#78. The sidewalks swarmed with people, the night was full of the noises of the living. They struck Miss Clarvoe's ears strangely, like sounds from another planet.
Margaret Millar
#80. I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
Margaret Spellings
#81. In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.
Margaret Weis
#82. If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.
Margaret Fuller
#83. The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.
Margaret Atwood
#84. It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.
Margaret Deland
#85. My mother sighed, making me feel that I was placing an intolerable burden on her, and yet making me resent having to feel this weight. She looked tired, as she often did these days. Her tiredness bored me, made me want to attack her for it.
Margaret Laurence
#86. It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.
Margaret Atwood
#87. I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.
Margaret Cho
#88. I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead
#89. Would I laugh?"
"Matter of fact, you would," says Zeb. "Heart like shale. What you need is a good fracking.
Margaret Atwood
#90. If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
Margaret Mead
#91. We are made of star material, and every atom of matter on Earth originated in the core of a star.
Margaret Robertson
#92. Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
Margaret Atwood
#93. It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
Margaret Mead
#94. The American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.
Margaret Halsey
#95. It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.
Margaret Mahy
#96. My audience is God,
because who the hell else could understand me?
Margaret Atwood
#98. Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
Margaret Cho
#99. Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
Margaret Fuller
#100. Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.
Margaret Atwood
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