Margaret Atwood

“The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.”

“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”

“A word after a word after a word is power.”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.”

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”