{"author":"Margaret Atwood","author_id":"Margaret+Atwood","total_quotes":480,"quotes":[{"text":"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["sci-fi"],"id":1869,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter...","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["change","history","incorporation"],"id":3654,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to become someone else's past time, and then time folds again.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["life","time"],"id":3741,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["purpose"],"id":3972,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["journalism","journalists","media","newspapers"],"id":4048,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["i am","writing","believe "],"id":6726,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"Some of these stories, it is understood, are not to be passed on to my father, because they would upset him. It is well known that women can deal with this sort of thing better than men can. Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic. Men, for some mysterious reason, find life more difficult than women do. (My mother believes this, despite the female bodies, trapped, diseased, disappearing, or abandoned, that litter her stories.) Men must be allowed to play in the sandbox of their choice, as happily as they can, without disturbance; otherwise they get cranky and won't eat their dinners. There are all kinds of things that men are simply not equipped to understand, so why expect it of them? Not everyone shares this believe about men; nonetheless, it has its uses.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["belief","capabilities","female-body","men","misandry","sandboxes","useful-belief","women"],"id":8319,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["garden","secrets","silence"],"id":9654,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["choose","going","female "],"id":11197,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["poetry","words"],"id":12340,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":480,"pages":48,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}