You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.
Margaret AtwoodKnowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.
Margaret AtwoodTags: fear knowledge temptation
To want is to have a weakness.
Margaret AtwoodTags: desires
What’s with her?” says the painter.
“She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years, not since high school. Once it was a shaming thing to say, and crushing to have it said about you, by a man. It implied oddness, deformity, sexual malfunction.
I go to the living room doorway. “I’m not mad because I’m a woman,” I say. “I’m mad because you’re an asshole.
...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.
Margaret AtwoodTags: hope
We understand more than we know.
Margaret AtwoodTags: wisdom science knowledge understanding
These days I script whole fights, in my head, and the reconciliations afterwards, too.
Margaret AtwoodFirst maid:
If I was a princess, with silver and gold,
And loved by a hero, I'd never grow old:
Oh, if a young hero came a-marrying me,
I'd always be beautiful, happy, and free!
Chorus:
Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -
The water below is as dark as the grave,
And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat -
It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat.
The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it’s one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.
Margaret AtwoodThey have a certain gaiety to them, a power of invention, they don't care what people think. They have escaped, though what it is they've escaped from isn't clear to us. We think that their bizarre costumes, their verbal tics, are chosen, and that when the time comes we also will be free to choose. "That's what I'm going to be like,
Margaret AtwoodTags: old-ladies teenage-girls
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