Margaret Atwood

We understand more than we know. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#science #understanding #wisdom #science

I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#humour #food

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#humanity #empathy

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#first-sentence

What you get is no longer what you see. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#inspirational

The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#thirst #design

Why do men feel threatened by women? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#men

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter... ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#history #incorporation #change

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#art

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#youth #age