"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.
~ Margaret Atwood ~
Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.
More Margaret Atwood quotes
"Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence?
"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...
"To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock over a foot onto the stub of himself--his extra s...
"Ah men,why do you want all this attention?I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutelynecessary. What do you have to offer meI ...
"UPYou wake up filled with dread.There seems no reason for it.Morning light sifts through the window,there is birdsong,you can't get out of bed.It's so...
"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...
"What is believed in society is not always the equivalent of what is true; but as regards to a woman's reputation, it amounts to the same thing.
"He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefi...
"I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle alo...
"There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were ...
"They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their earl...
"Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
"It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.
"This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.