Feels Quotes by Margaret Atwood

Why do men feel threatened by women?

— Margaret Atwood

I feel like the word shatter.

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“the way love feels is always only approximate. Partway”

— Margaret Atwood

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.

— Margaret Atwood

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

— Margaret Atwood

All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Margaret Atwood

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

— Margaret Atwood

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

— Margaret Atwood

Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the…

— Margaret Atwood

The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make…

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“I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.…

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“But all my love ever came to was a bad end. Red-hot shoes, barrels studded with nails. That's what it feels like,…

— Margaret Atwood

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too…

— Margaret Atwood

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability…

— Margaret Atwood

Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike…

— Margaret Atwood

You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This…

— Margaret Atwood

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other…

— Margaret Atwood

I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I…

— Margaret Atwood

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not…

— Margaret Atwood

Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will…

— Margaret Atwood

While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my…

— Margaret Atwood

The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil,…

— Margaret Atwood

I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really…

— Margaret Atwood

At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I…

— Margaret Atwood

Either I'm alive or I'm dying, she said to Daniel. Please don't feel you can't tell me. Which is it? Which does…

— Margaret Atwood

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability…

— Margaret Atwood

Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and…

— Margaret Atwood

The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I…

— Margaret Atwood

I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it…

— Margaret Atwood

Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.

— Margaret Atwood

I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of…

— Margaret Atwood

“She has never been in the presence, before, of two people who are in love with each other. She feels like a…

— Margaret Atwood

If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of…

— Margaret Atwood

Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For…

— Margaret Atwood