Margaret Atwood Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Graduation, Moving

• We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

  Margaret Atwood

  Aunt, Choices, Dying

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative context, two versions, a positive and a negative... If you spill your milk you're left with a glass which is either half empty or half full... 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

  Inspirational, Graduation, Art

  "Attitude". Margaret Atwood's commencement address at the University of Toronto, Canada, www.humanity.org. June 14, 1983.

• If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

  Margaret Atwood

  Country, Choices, Want

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jul 27, 2016

• 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

  Hands, Skulls, Choices

• They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.

  Margaret Atwood

  Choices, Dying, Able

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

• If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

  Margaret Atwood

  Giving Up, People, Choices

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