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This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards,

This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit’s hard to remember afterwards,
– Margaret Atwood

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  2. I can’t remember what I really felt. Maybe nothing happened, maybe these emotions I remember are not the right emotions. – Margaret Atwood
  3. I remember Queen Victoria’s advice to her daughter. Close your eyes and think of England. – Margaret Atwood
  4. 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
  5. … 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
  6. The fact is that I hate this city. I’ve hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it. – Margaret Atwood
  7. I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I’m dead, and then more afterwards. – Russell Brand
  8. Maybe that’s why God made childbirth so painful, so that when your life is wrecked by children you know it could be worse. – JT Lawrence
  9. His mom was more the rich pampered type whose version of natural childbirth meant giving birth without makeup. – Jennifer Shirk
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  16. Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond. – Margaret Atwood
  17. The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed. – Margaret Atwood
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  19. Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock. – Margaret Atwood
  20. I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman. – Margaret Atwood
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  22. Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. – Margaret Atwood
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  24. By telling you anything at all I’m at least believing in you, I believe you’re there, I believe you into being. – Margaret Atwood
  25. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. – Margaret Atwood
  26. I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting. – Margaret Atwood
  27. I didn’t much like it, this grudge-holding against the past. – Margaret Atwood
  28. 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
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  30. He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know we were happy, even then? Because we at least had that: arms, around. – Margaret Atwood
  31. Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don’t really care about them all that much? – Margaret Atwood
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  33. More and more I feel like a letter-”deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one. – Margaret Atwood
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  35. 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
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  38. Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers. – Margaret Atwood
  39. 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
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