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Used Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
- Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.
- Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing…
- I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used…
- We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can…
- A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if…
- He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a…
- A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?
- Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said…
- Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder…
- Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor,…
- I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my…
- Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
- Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It…
- There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to…
- In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself…
- I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken…
- Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're…
- She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking…
- People can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
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