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Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one.
– Margaret Atwood

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  2. 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
  3. His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile. – Margaret Atwood
  4. Look son, the Human Pig.(shocked)Mother, y-you’re inhuman!(deadpan)Another animal could do this? – Larry Gonick
  5. Never hurt a woman because she is someone’s mother or will be someone’s mother. Could you hurt your mother? – Debasish Mridha
  6. This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea. – Margaret Atwood
  7. There is never only one, of anyone – Margaret Atwood
  8. When they’re gone out of his head, these words, they’ll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been. – Margaret Atwood
  9. Never pray for justice, because you might get some. – Margaret Atwood
  10. A writer’s age at the time of a work’s composition is never irrelevant. – Margaret Atwood
  11. The seeds of life inside my womb were present at my birth; a gift from mother’s mother, on back to Mother Earth. – Patricia Robin Woodruff
  12. A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. – Angela Carter
  13. Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond. – Margaret Atwood
  14. The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed. – Margaret Atwood
  15. These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It’s probably a vitamin deficiency. – Margaret Atwood
  16. Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock. – Margaret Atwood
  17. I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman. – Margaret Atwood
  18. They will not let you have peace, they don’t want you to have anything they don’t have themselves. – Margaret Atwood
  19. Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. – Margaret Atwood
  20. Nobody wanted to be sexless, but nobody wanted to be nothing but sex. – Margaret Atwood
  21. But there’s something missing in them, even the nice ones. It’s like they’re permanently absent-minded, like that can’t quite remember who they are. – Margaret Atwood
  22. Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo. – Margaret Atwood
  23. … Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. – Margaret Atwood
  24. They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing. – Margaret Atwood
  25. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. – Margaret Atwood
  26. I didn’t much like it, this grudge-holding against the past. – Margaret Atwood
  27. you can’t change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really wanted to do – Margaret Atwood
  28. Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. – Margaret Atwood
  29. Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don’t really care about them all that much? – Margaret Atwood
  30. It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor’s wife should cut them all out and paste them into her scrapbook. – Margaret Atwood
  31. More and more I feel like a letter-”deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one. – Margaret Atwood
  32. I could end this with a moral,as if this were a fable about animals,though no fables are really about animals. – Margaret Atwood
  33. I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag. – Margaret Atwood
  34. He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever. – Margaret Atwood
  35. …yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink. – Margaret Atwood
  36. The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn’t one. – Margaret Atwood
  37. Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers. – Margaret Atwood
  38. I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we’re about to do something harmful, to someone else. – Margaret Atwood
  39. Lose your temper and you lose the fight. – Margaret Atwood
  40. Perfection exacts a price, but it’s the imperfect who pay it – Margaret Atwood

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