The night is mine, my own time, to do with it as I will, as long as I am quiet. As long as I don't move. As long as I lie still. The difference between lie and lay. Lay is always passive.

Margaret Atwood

Mots clés feminism



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A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

Margaret Atwood


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...there was little that was truly original or indigenous to Gilead. Its genius was synthesis.

Margaret Atwood

Mots clés history-of-thought



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What do you want me to do?” he whispers into the empty air.

It’s hard to know.

Oh Jimmy, you were so funny.

Don’t let me down.

From habit he lifts his watch; it shows him its blank face.

Zero hour, Snowman thinks. Time to go.

Margaret Atwood


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But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted out; enters the darkness of her own body, forgets her name. Immolation is what she wants, however briefly. To exist without boundaries.

Margaret Atwood


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Just what the doctor ordered, he says. A bottle of lemonade, a hard-boiled egg, and Thou.

Margaret Atwood

Mots clés humor love



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I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

Margaret Atwood

Mots clés humor old-age



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I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.

Margaret Atwood


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Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

Margaret Atwood

Mots clés god-religion



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That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.

Margaret Atwood

Mots clés dystopia government enemy constitution



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