Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it."
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"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, CAT'S EYE.
"It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"I wasn't even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I'd exhausted the notion that the answer to a man is another man, and I was out of breath."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They merely drenched you or struck you like lightning and moved on, mindless as blizzards. Or they were like rocks, a line of sharp slippery rocks with jagged edges. You could walk with care along between the rocks, picking your steps, and if you slipped you'd fall and cut yourself, but it was no use blaming the rocks."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"Never pray for justice, because you might get some."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"Last night I felt the approach of nothing. Not too close but on its way, like a wingbeat, like the cooling of the wind, the slight initial tug of an undertow."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"There are days when I can hardly make it out of bed. I find it an effort to speak. I measure progress in steps, the next one and the next one, as far as the bathroom. These steps are major accomplishments. I focus on taking the cap off the toothpaste, getting the brush up to my mouth. I have difficulty lifting my arm to do even that. I feel I am without worth, that nothing I can do is of any value, least of all to myself."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their early, purist stages. It is not enough to give lip service and to believe in equal pay: there has to be a conversion, from the heart. Or so they imply."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"There is never only one, of anyone"
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"In my dreams of this city I am always lost."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"She can outstare anyone, and I am almost as good. We’re impervious, we scintillate, we are thirteen. We wear long wool coats with tie belts, the collars turned up to look like those of movie stars, and rubber boots with the tops folded down and men’s work socks inside. In our pockets are stuffed the kerchiefs our mothers make us wear but that we take off as soon as we’re out of their sight. We scorn head coverings. Our mouths are tough, crayon-red, shiny as nails. We think we are friends."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"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, CAT'S EYE.
"I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"All this will happen because people have neglected the basic lessons of Science, they have gone in for politics and religion and wars instead, and sought out passionate excuses for killing one another. Science on the other hand is dispassionate and without bias, it is the only universal language. The language is numbers. When at last we are up to our ears in death and garbage, we will look to Science to clean up our mess."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
"Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in tie and exist in two places at once."
Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
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