Margaret Atwood Quotes About Hunger

Quotes about: Hunger

• What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mother, Wish, Dolls

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from May 10, 2015

• There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.

  Margaret Atwood

  Alive, Hunger, Said

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.95, Anchor

• He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.

  Margaret Atwood

  White, Rose, Looks

  Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.296, Random House

• ...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nostalgia, Hunger, Jimmy

• Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sadness, Two, Together

  Margaret Atwood (2010). “The Year Of The Flood”, p.211, Hachette UK

• Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

  Margaret Atwood

  Powerful, Hunger, Conscience

  Margaret Atwood (2014). “The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam”, p.409, Anchor

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