A word after a word after a word is power.
Weitere Zitate von Margaret Atwood
Zum Autor"A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon."
"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"
"Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it."
"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary."
"The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others."
"Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run..."