like a pathway through a forest, like a carpet for royalty, it shows me the way
Margaret AtwoodNow we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don't let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.
Margaret AtwoodTags: heaven hell forgiveness
A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.
Margaret AtwoodMyths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Margaret AtwoodI have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife.
Margaret AtwoodFor years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
Margaret AtwoodPeople cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.
Margaret AtwoodWe were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.
This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I'm supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience and wisdom. I'm supposed to be a person of substance.
Margaret AtwoodHow were we to know we were happy?
Margaret AtwoodTags: the-handmaid-s-tale
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