Margaret Atwood Kind Quotations

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

The farther north you go, the fewer fruits and vegetables there are. What kind of apple trees do you suggest the Inuit get their apples from? And how much oil is expended transporting such things out there? It's an equation.

People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

I don't think it's a question of whether you eat meat. It's a question of what kind of meat, and where it comes from.

I never say I'm an "ist" of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.

I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.

Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.