There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“So, the book is not 'anti-religion.' It is against the use of religion as a front for tyranny; which is a different… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I've learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, said Aunt Lydia, you get too… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Of course the crank religions wouldn't like it, in view of the fact that their raison d'etre was based on misery, indefinitely… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the trees; then they fell from vegetarianism into meat-eating. Then they fell from instinct into reason, and thus into technology; from simple signals into complex grammar, and thus into humanity; from firelessness into fire, and thence into weaponry; and from seasonal mating into an… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling me there was a dead man in the sky watching everything I did and I retaliated by explaining where babies came from. Some of their mothers phoned mine to complain, though I think I was more upset than… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
The interesting thing about the religious component, for me, is that Jesus hardly mentions sex at all. He's pretty interested in the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“In times of extremes, extremists win. Their ideology becomes a religion, anyone who doesn't puppet their views is seen as an apostate,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“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
