I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public display of privates. What is it for? What purposes of reassurance does it serve? The flashing of a badge, look, everyone, all is in order, I belong here. Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women? Some form of unbuttoning, some split-crotch routine, just as casual. A doglike sniffing.

Margaret Atwood


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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

Margaret Atwood


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Perhaps he's reached that state of intoxication which power is said to inspire, the state in which you believe you are indispensable and can therefore do anything, absolutely anything you feel like, anything at all.

Margaret Atwood


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Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen—to be seen—is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

Margaret Atwood

Mots clés fear dogma dystopia modesty



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He throws out radiance, it must be reflected sun. Why isn't everyone staring?

Margaret Atwood


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Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.

Margaret Atwood

Mots clés should futile



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The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

Margaret Atwood

Mots clés love lust young-love



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Don't blame me, blame history, he says, smiling. Such things happen. Falling in love has been recorded, or at least those words have.

Margaret Atwood


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I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.

Margaret Atwood


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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.

Margaret Atwood


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