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“Also, if a man takes pride in his disguise skills, it would be a foolish wife who would claim to recognise him: it’s always an imprudence to step between a man and the reflection of his own cleverness.” (The Penelopiad Quotes)
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
“Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.”
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
“Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he’ll take kindness any day of the week, if there’s nothing more alluring to be had.”
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
“Creating some god for one’s inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.”
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
“Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.”
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
“Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.”
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
“Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked”
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
“I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman.”
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
“I wanted happy endings in those days, and happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked and going to sleep during the rampages.”
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
“Immortality and mortality didn’t mix well: it was fire and mud, only the fire always won. The gods were never averse to making a mess. In fact they enjoyed it.”
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
“It’s always an advantage to have something to do with your hands. That way, if someone makes an inappropriate remark, you can pretend you haven’t heard it. Then you don’t have to answer.” (The Penelopiad Quotes)
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
“It’s always an imprudence to step between a man and the reflection of his own cleverness.”
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
“Never mind. Point being that you don’t have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don’t have to think of us as real girls, real flesh and blood, real pain, real injustice. That might be too upsetting. Just discard the sordid part. Consider us pure symbol. We’re no more real than money.”
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
“She who weeps when the sun’s in sky, Will never pile the platter high.”
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.”
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
“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
The Penelopiad
“Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?”
Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
