“Humanity is so adaptable [...] Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
![Margaret Atwood - “Humanity is so adaptable [...] Truly...” 1](https://img.thequotesearch.com/img.thequotesearch.com/article-images/margaret-atwood-humanity-is-so-adaptable-truly-0.jpg)
Similar quotes
“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale
“In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.”
Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything
“it's amazing what you can get used to.”
Jeffrey Eugenides
“People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.”
Lionel Shriver
We Need to Talk About Kevin
“People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along.”
Stephen Jay Gould