Margaret Atwood Quotes About Eating

Quotes about: Eating

• Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Heart, Mind

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.329, Anchor

• If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.

  Margaret Atwood

  Heart, Eating, Hungry

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.329, Anchor

• I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.

  Margaret Atwood

  Food, Alive, Ridiculous

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

• Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.

  Margaret Atwood

  May, Slides, Eating

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.365, Anchor

• If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Animal, Environmental, Meat

• As I was whizzing around the United States on yet another demented book tour, getting up at four in the morning to catch planes, doing two cities a day, eating the Pringle food object out of the mini-bar at night as I crawled around on the hotel room floor, too tired even to phone room service, I thought, 'There must be a better way of doing this'.

  Margaret Atwood

  Morning, Book, Tired

• Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

  Margaret Atwood

  Race, Differences, Language

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “The Edible Woman”, New Canadian Library

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