“It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives? — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“In pictures like these there are always empty shoes. It's the shoes that get to me. Sad, that innocent daily task -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“By telling you anything at all I’m at least believing in you, I believe you’re there, I believe you into being. Because… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“but it is my true belief that it was the doctor that killed her with his knife; him and the gentleman between… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“No empire imposed by force or otherwise has ever been without this feature: control of the indigenous by members of their own group. In the case of Gilead, there were many women willing to serve as Aunts, either because of a genuine belief in what they called "traditional values", or for the benefits they might thereby acquire. When power is… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“Apart from all this, I do of course have a real life. I sometimes have trouble believing in it, because it doesn't… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I consider these things idly. Each one of them seems the same size as all the others. Not one seems preferable. Fatigue… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Keep the faith. Whatever that may be. Don't get too depressed yet, because I have a belief in America being very diverse… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The things I believe can't all be true, though one of them must be. But I believe all of them, all three… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“One young fellow pointed to another steamer in the distance, and said it was the Lady of the Lake, a United States vessel which until recently was thought to be the fastest boat on the Lake; but she had just lost a trial-of-speed race to the new Royal Mail Standard boat, the Eclipse, which outran her by four minutes and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Mary: Some call this "Eve's curse," but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the… — margaret atwood Copy Share Image
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Every time the women appear, Snowman is astonished all over again. They're every known colour from the deepest black to whitest white, they're various heights, but each one of them is admirably proportioned. Each is sound of tooth, smooth of skin. No ripples of fat around their waists, no bulges, no dimpled orange-skin cellulite on their thighs. No body hair,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
