Margaret Atwood Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

  Margaret Atwood

  Bad Ass, Voice, Silence

  "Margaret Atwood on a voyage to the world's end" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

• There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Silence, Virtue

• Powerlessness and silence go together.

  Margaret Atwood

  Silence, Together, Powerlessness

  "Margaret Atwood on a voyage to the world's end" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

• Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.

  Margaret Atwood

  Betrayal, Silence, Darkness

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