Quotes about Vulnerability
I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.
— Margaret Atwood
The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish, drying on sand.
— Margaret Atwood
She said love was useless, because it led you into dumb exchanges in which you gave too much away, and then you got bitter and mean.
— Margaret Atwood
Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.
— Margaret Atwood
Nobody's heart is perfect.
— Margaret Atwood
Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?
— Margaret Atwood
Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought of him.
— Margaret Atwood
Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing. They skip town or turn perfidious, or else the drop like flies and then where are you?
— Margaret Atwood
The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish, drying on sand. He
— Margaret Atwood
And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betrayal of myself.
— Margaret Atwood
Laura was flint in a nest of thistledown. I say flint, not stone: a flint has a heart of fire.
— Margaret Atwood
While I read, the Commander sits and watches me doing it, without speaking but also without taking his eyes off me. This watching is a curiously sexual act, and I feel undressed while he does it.
— Margaret Atwood