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Canadians and Americans may look alike, but the contents of their heads are quite different. Americans experience themselves, individually, as small toads in the biggest and most powerful puddle in the world. Their sense of power comes from identifying with the puddle. Canadians as individuals may have more power within the puddle, since there are fewer toads in it; it's the puddle that's seen as powerless.

Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood's Popular Quotes

friendship was always contingent.

- Margaret Atwood

I tell, therefore you are.

- Margaret Atwood

Faith is only a word, embroidered.

- Margaret Atwood

There is never only one, of anyone

- Margaret Atwood

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

- Margaret Atwood

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

- Margaret Atwood

You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

- Margaret Atwood

In the end, we'll all become stories.

- Margaret Atwood

Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

- Margaret Atwood
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