“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
There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. — 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
“Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.” — 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
If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil. — 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling… — 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
“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
“According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the trees; then they fell from… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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
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 fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“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… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“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.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
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