Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

“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.”

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”

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

“War is what happens when language fails.”

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

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

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