Margaret Atwood quotes - page 8

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)
Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does. View quote
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Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. View quote
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Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. View quote
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Where do the words go when we have said them? View quote
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The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner. View quote
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. View quote
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Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework. View quote
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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most. View quote
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I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary. View quote
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A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon? (Margaret Atwood)
When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me - yet - the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me. View quote
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You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself. View quote
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Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow. View quote
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All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. View quote
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If I thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. View quote
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We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility. View quote
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Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs. View quote
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Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind. View quote
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A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately. View quote
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You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye. (Margaret Atwood)
How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste. View quote
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Potential has a shelf life. View quote
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What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question. View quote
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I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something. View quote
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