"He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty, not to mention anatomy. If a real woman was bu...
Pearls are congealed oyster spit.
More Margaret Atwood quotes
"I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills.
"How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
"I wonderif I should let my hair go greyso my advice will be better.
"We understand more than we know.
"The male frog, in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voi...
"He was a dork, a dink, a dong… Why should the male member be used as a term of abuse? No man hated his own dorkdinkdong, quite the opposite. But maybe...
"How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, h...
"I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.
"What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!
"Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his dick?
"All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.
"Think of yourselves as pearls. We, sitting in our rows, eyes down, we make her salivate morally. We are hers to define, we must suffer her adjectives....
"We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we turn to look at her we glimpse her only for a moment...
"She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.