Margaret Atwood

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#religion

In my dreams of this city I am always lost. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#lost #dreams

Sanity is a valuable possesion; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#money

To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#life

Snowman wakes before dawn. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#first-sentence

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#change

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 skin a cat even one way. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#humor #method #wisdom #humor

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 the military hasn't got on to this. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#humor

We understand more than we know. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#science #understanding #wisdom #science

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#hypocrisy