“A word after a word after a word is power.” ~Margaret Atwood
"Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." ~Margaret Atwood
“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.” ~Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“I wonder why trying to transcend time never even succeeds in stopping it...” ~Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman
“I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.” ~Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories
"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." ~Margaret Atwood
“It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam.” ~Margaret Atwood, The Door
“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It’s like the tide going out, revealing whatever’s been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.” ~Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
"Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings." ~Margaret Atwood
"The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free." ~Margaret Atwood
"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love." ~Margaret Atwood
“They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.” ~Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does..” ~Margaret Atwood
"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. ~Margaret Atwood
“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.” ~Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
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"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love." ~Margaret Atwood
“They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.” ~Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
WOLLI CREEK
11 MARCH 2024
COOK'S RIVER
Taken inside a running train to Kogarah NSW
"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does..” ~Margaret Atwood
"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. ~Margaret Atwood
“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.” ~Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
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