Margaret Atwood Quotes about Belief

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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

Margaret Atwood

Facts, Different, Belief

"Narrative Magazine’s Friday Feature: Margaret Atwood Interview, In Which She Talks About “A Handmaid’s Tale”,“The Year Of The Flood” And Having Fun". Interview with Jo Scott-Coe, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.

Margaret Atwood

Memories, Anecdotes, Belief

Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.121, Anchor

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

Margaret Atwood

Belief, Willingness

Margaret Atwood (2013). “MaddAddam: Book 3 of The MaddAddam Trilogy”, p.228, Anchor

Keep the faith. Whatever that may be. Don't get too depressed yet, because I have a belief in America being very diverse and ornery, and containing a lot of people who are not going to roll over very easily for a totalitarian dictatorship. That is what I think.

Margaret Atwood

Thinking, People, Belief

"Margaret Atwood answers the question: Is 'The Handmaid's Tale' a feminist book?". www.latimes.com. April 24, 2017.