Margaret Atwod Quotes

I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children. ~ Margaret Atwood

Sex was a given, like food, and as such was to be relished when excellent and derided when substandard; it was an entertainment, like the theatre, and could thus be reviewed like a performance. ~ Margaret Atwood

Sports section and a sticky bun. Know what that means. ~ Margaret Stohl

How I wasted them, those rooms, that freedom from being seen. Rented ~ Margaret Atwood

But I'm ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it's false news, it must mean something. We ~ Margaret Atwood

Hell we can make for ourselves. ~ Margaret Atwood

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts. ~ Margaret Drabble

We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comfortable to our natures. ~ Margaret Of Valois

We lived in the gaps between the stories. From ~ Margaret Atwood

Support your libraries ... or else! ~ Margaret Atwood

Maybe acting as if she believes in such a future will help to create it, which is the kind of thing the Gardeners used to say. ~ Margaret Atwood

Her body feels different, no longer taut and sinewy but sponge-like fluid. Saturated. It has a different energy, a deep orangy-like pink, like the inside of a hibiscus. ~ Margaret Atwood

Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers you. ~ Margaret Mary Alacoque

Every poor lady that came to me, that touched my hand, that drew a small part of my spirit from me to her - they were only shadows. Aurora, they were shadows of you! I was only seeking you out, as you were seeking me. You were seeking me, your own affinity. And if you let them keep me from you now, I think we shall die! ~ Sarah Waters

As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky one remarked
referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omlette without breaking eggs
he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but had never tasted any omlette. ~ Margaret Thatcher

He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination that would not recognize defeat, and kept on fighting even when she saw defeat was inevitable. ~ Margaret Mitchell

What mysteries remain to be revealed in the nervous system, that web of structures both material and ethereal, that network of threads that runs throughout the body, composed of a thousand Ariadne's clues, all leading to the brain, that shadowy central den where the human bones lie scattered and the monsters lurk ~ Margaret Atwood

Being poor isn't the only way to be in need."
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Summer of Broken Things ~ Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause. ~ Margaret Fuller

God sits enthroned, ready to listen, to help. ~ Margaret Feinberg

My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. while one thing is happening so is another. While someone is in darkness another is in daylight.While person dies another is born. ~ Margaret Leis HannaBrunhilde Maurer Barron Barron

Ah, but you were not a pawn. All along, you have been the queen. ~ Margaret Rogerson

Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before. ~ Margaret Halsey

Whenever God thinks of you, he has your best interests in mind; he has plans to take you further, deeper, and higher than you ever dreamed. This process begins when you seek God and spend time with him. Look for every opportunity to know God. Consider your daily schedule. What does it include? A workout at the gym? A trip to the post office? A lunch hour? A commute? Look for ways to include God in your activities. Invite God to accompany you by talking together. Look for moments- even if it's only ten or twenty seconds- to steal away with him. God will reward your efforts as you reshape your inner life to be focused around him. As you seek God, you will find yourself abiding in him. -Hungry for God ~ Margaret Feinberg

They say:
Speak for us (to whom?)
Some say: Avenge us (on whom?)
Some say: Take our place.
Some say: Witness
Others say (and these are women)
Be happy for us. ~ Margaret Atwood

The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved. ~ Margaret Truman Daniel

A great fear came over me, and my body went entirely cold, and I stood as if paralyzed with fear; for I knew that the horse was no earthly horse, but the pale horse that will be sent at the Day of Reckoning, and the rider of it is Death; and it was Death himself who stood behind me, with his arms wrapped around me as tight as iron bands, and his lipless mouth kissing my neck as if in love. But as well as the horror, I also felt a strange longing. ~ Margaret Atwood

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent. ~ Margaret Thatcher

No great goal was ever easily achieved. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against. ~ Martin Parr

I love the sea with its impenetrable fathoms, its wash and undertow, and rasp of shingle sucked anew. ~ Margaret E. Barber

But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy; and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil. I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection. I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathise with me; whose eyes would reply to mine. You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans. How would such a friend repair the faults of your poor brother! ~ Mary Shelley

We would not be Human if we did not prefer to be the devourers rather than the devoured, but either is a blessing. Should your life be required of you, rest assured that it is required by Life. ~ Margaret Atwood

Is it a mausoleum, and I, the Egyptiab, mummified with pillows and my own flesh, through some oversight enbalmed alive? There must be some mistake. ~ Margaret Laurence

Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to earthly paradise. ~ Margaret Sanger

I always try to think before I talk. ~ Margaret Chase Smith

I saw my role as prime minister's wife as being human towards other humans and not treating them badly. ~ Margaret Whitlam

Rape culture is a concept of unknown origin and of uncertain definition; yet it has made its way into everyday vocabulary and is assumed to be commonly understood. The award-winning documentary film Rape Culture made by Margaret Lazarus in 1975 takes credit for first defining the concept ~ Joyce E. Williams

Money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered ... Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself ~ Margaret Heffernan

and the most insane gossip tortured the town ~ Margaret Mitchell