Margaret Atwood Quotes

I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.

Why do we fall in love so easy, even when it's not right?

... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through

The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

Men are like that sometimes - if they meet someone and fall in love, it's real, no matter how fast it happened. But if someone falls for a woman they happen to care about, all they do is question the man's intentions.

Wouldn't--" Kel began to say, but the words stuck in her mouth. She swallowed and tried again. "Wouldn't it be well, not nice to flirt with somebody you don't want to fall in love with?

Don't you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.

I think one of the lessons we learn in life - and it's an old lesson, but each of us has to learn it, if he does, individually - and that is that, in human relations, particularly sexual relations and so on, the person you might most trust and feel most comfortable and easy with isn't necessarily the person your heart is going to fall for.

Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?

Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

I think the reason that very few people really fall in love with anyone is that they're not willing to pay the price.

In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

Men know so little about us women. We've a weakness, it is true, for those who charm us, but we always come back to those who love us.

Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But now I think we need some emphasis on the instinctive side of life, sex and motherhood.... Life isn't all earning your living. Unfortunately we fall in love and Feminism must take that into consideration.

Love with someone else, an actual person, was another matter. People got hurt doing that. People cried and wrapped their arms around themselves and rocked with loss. Loving words got turned to fierce, sharp, whip-cracks of anger that lefft permanent marks. At the least, it disappointed you. At most, it damaged you.

Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.

If I can forgive the attachment in myself and open to the vulnerability that's underneath it, then rather than fixating on another person to satisfy my need, I'm actually going right to where the needs come from and able to bring a real healing.

There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the girls eats a sandwich, how she combs her hair, what sort of nonsense she cares about, why she's angry at her father, and what sort of stories people tell about her. The second type of man -- and I am in this category -- can fall in love with a woman only if he knows next to nothing about her.

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of 'the heart.

Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.