Quotes about Perspective
Freedom, like everything else, is relative.
— Margaret Atwood
How were we to know we were happy?
— Margaret Atwood
Mary: Some call this Eve's curse, but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam.
— Margaret Atwood
Not real can tell us about real.
— Margaret Atwood
Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that's what the mind is for.
— Margaret Atwood
You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.
— Margaret Atwood
As it says in the Bible, For now we through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. If it is face to face, there must be two looking.
— Margaret Atwood
While in a vintage restaurant...the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.
— Margaret Atwood
Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and can be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.
— Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
— Margaret Atwood
That way nobody feels exploited." "Wait a minute," says Stan. "Nobody's exploited?" "I said nobody feels exploited," says Budge. "Different thing.
— Margaret Atwood
Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.
— Margaret Atwood