--- title: "12 Glasses Quotes By Margaret Atwood" description: "12 Glasses quotes by Margaret Atwood. Plus more from Margaret Atwood and more Glasses sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/267/margaret-atwood-40_glasses_her-glass-wings-are-gone-1149204_1149204.jpg" --- > [Her glass wings are gone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/her-glass-wings-are-gone/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/267/margaret-atwood-40_glasses_her-glass-wings-are-gone-1149204_1149204.jpg) > [Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/happiness-is-a-garden-walled-with-glass-there-s-no-way-in-or-out/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14f/margaret-atwood-40_garden_happiness-is-a-garden-walled-with-glass_1199819.jpg) > [You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/you-can-wet-the-rim-of-a-glass-and-run-your-finger-around-the-rim-and/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdb/margaret-atwood-40_feels_you-can-wet-the-rim-of-a-glass-and-run-y_2860380.jpg) > [Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/human-understanding-is-fallible-and-we-see-through-a-glass-darkly-any/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b9/margaret-atwood-40_glasses_human-understanding-is-fallible-and-we-s_405844.jpg) > [The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/the-weapons-that-were-once-outside-sharpening-themselves-on-war-are/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/503/margaret-atwood-40_archways_the-weapons-that-were-once-outside-sharp_1882304.jpg) > [Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/happiness-is-a-garden-walled-with-glass-there-s-no-way-in-or-out-in/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e91/margaret-atwood-40_garden_happiness-is-a-garden-walled-with-glass_2125601.jpg) > [We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/we-have-begun-to-slam-doors-and-to-throw-things-i-throw-my-purse-an/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6e/margaret-atwood-40_boxes_we-have-begun-to-slam-doors-and-to-throw_1893303.jpg) > [When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/when-you-are-in-the-middle-of-a-story-it-isn-t-a-story-at-all-but/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73c/margaret-atwood-40_blindness_when-you-are-in-the-middle-of-a-story-it_2786383.jpg) > [Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/writers-are-much-better-behaved-nowadays-for-a-couple-of-reasons-once/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2b/margaret-atwood-40_bits_writers-are-much-better-behaved-nowadays_759027.jpg) > [I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-have-always-known-that-there-were-spellbinding-evil-parts-for-women/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/562/margaret-atwood-40_age_i-have-always-known-that-there-were-spel_2581697.jpg) > [When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice… As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/when-faced-with-the-inevitable-you-always-have-a-choice-as-i-learned/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/548/margaret-atwood-40_able_when-faced-with-the-inevitable-you-alway_736143.jpg) > [“Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/then-we-had-the-irises-rising-beautiful-and-cool-on-their-tall-stalks/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2e/margaret-atwood-40_beautiful_then-we-had-the-irises-rising-beautiful_586602.jpg) ## Other authors on Glasses ## More by Margaret Atwood > [“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-m-fine-said-pilar-for-the-moment-and-the-moment-is-the-only-time-we/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/and-yet-it-disturbs-me-to-learn-i-have-hurt-someone-unintentionally-i/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/mary-some-call-this-eve-s-curse-but-i-think-that-is-stupid-because/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/the-birds-were-singing-around-me-but-i-reflected-that-the-very-birds/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/strange-how-we-decorate-pain-these-ribbons-for-instance-and-the-small/) [margaret atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-wanted-to-forget-the-past-but-it-refused-to-forget-me-it-waited-for/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/back-at-home-they-drew-the-curtains-and-read-with-disapproval-with/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“It's my fault. I am forgetting too much.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/it-s-my-fault-i-am-forgetting-too-much/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/all-fiction-is-about-people-unless-it-s-about-rabbits-pretending-to/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/simon-walks-back-to-the-house-alone-the-night-is-clear-and-warm-with/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/there-is-indeed-something-delightful-about-being-able-to-combine/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/every-time-the-women-appear-snowman-is-astonished-all-over-again-they/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/once-you-publish-a-book-it-is-out-of-your-control-you-cannot-dictate/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/the-more-difficult-it-was-to-love-the-particular-man-beside-us-the/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) > [“She knows she's deceiving herself about that, but she prefers to deceive herself. She desperately needs to believe such pure joy is still possible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/she-knows-she-s-deceiving-herself-about-that-but-she-prefers-to/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/glasses/margaret-atwood/#itemlist", "name": "12 Glasses Quotes By Margaret Atwood", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Her glass wings are gone.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Margaret Atwood" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/her-glass-wings-are-gone/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/267/margaret-atwood-40_glasses_her-glass-wings-are-gone-1149204_1149204.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/267/margaret-atwood-40_glasses_her-glass-wings-are-gone-1149204_1149204.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/267/margaret-atwood-40_glasses_her-glass-wings-are-gone-1149204_1149204.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Her glass wings are gone.” — Margaret Atwood", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Margaret Atwood" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/happiness-is-a-garden-walled-with-glass-there-s-no-way-in-or-out/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14f/margaret-atwood-40_garden_happiness-is-a-garden-walled-with-glass_1199819.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14f/margaret-atwood-40_garden_happiness-is-a-garden-walled-with-glass_1199819.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14f/margaret-atwood-40_garden_happiness-is-a-garden-walled-with-glass_1199819.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.” — Margaret Atwood", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. 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