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Strange how we decorate pain. - Margaret Atwood

Strange how we decorate pain. – Margaret Atwood

Other quotes by 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

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Love
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Margaret Atwood
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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. – Margaret Atwood

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Religion
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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. – Margaret Atwood

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power
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Other Quotes from
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[M]y strength is made perfect in weakness. – Bible, IICorinthians12:9

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Adversity

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire—then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. Learn to separate the inconveniences from the real problems. You will live longer. – Sigmund Wollman, quoted by Robert Fulghum, Uh-Oh, 1991

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Adversity

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Chinese Proverb

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Adversity

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Adversity

Random Quotes

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Freedom

What Ive learned is you treat women right. – Tyler Perry

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Women

Anyone who teaches knows that you dont really experience a text until youve taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class. – Joyce Carol Oates

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Experience

We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary. – Uta Hagen

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Anniversary