Margaret Atwood Quotes About Growing Up

Quotes about: Growing Up

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Age

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

• I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.

  Margaret Atwood

  Growing Up, Stupid, Imperfection

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Sep 01, 2014

• They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

  Margaret Atwood

  Growing Up, School, Years

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.40, Anchor

• The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the hedges and weeds grow up, to allow the doors to rust shut, to lie on my bed in some gown-shaped garment and let my hair lengthens and spread out over the pillow and my fingernails to sprout into claws, while candle wax drips onto the carpet. But long ago I made a choice between classicism and romanticism. I prefer to be upright and contained—an urn in daylight.

  Margaret Atwood

  Weed, Children, Growing Up

• I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

  Margaret Atwood

  Growing Up, Survival, Woods

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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