🔬 Wisdom
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.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood

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🔬 Freedom

The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
🔬 Wisdom

Don’t interfere with false gods, you’ll get the gold paint all over your hands.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
🔬 Life

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
🔬 Wisdom

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.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
🔬 Luck

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
🔬 Family

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood