Margaret Atwood Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mother, Wish, Dolls

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from May 10, 2015

• All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.

  Margaret Atwood

  Daughter, Mother, Father

• No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mother, Children, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Sep 25, 2014

• Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mother, Clams, Cat Eye

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

• Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.

  Margaret Atwood

  Cute, Girl, Daughter

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

• Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mother, Shocked, Capable

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

• Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Done

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Wilderness Tips”, p.178, Anchor

• His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mother, Father, Self

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.56, Anchor

• Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mother, Lying, Jimmy

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.69, Anchor

• Women are human beings, and human beings are a very mixed lot. I've always been against the idea that women were Victorian angels, that they could do no wrong. I've always thought it was horseshit and does nobody any good. Remember, Lizzie Borden got off largely because the cultural agenda had convinced people that women were morally superior to men, so Lizzie Borden was "incapable" of taking the ax and giving her mother 40 whacks.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mother, Angel, Men

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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