Margaret Atwood

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

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

I’m not a prophet. Prophets can see into the future. I just look at what’s already happened and say, 'This could go on.'

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.

I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Context is all.

Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse for some.

Ignorance is bliss, but it's also stupid.

The past is a mirror. You can look into it, but you can't live in it.

If you are a woman, you are a target.

We are not always what we seem, and a good trick of the mind is to convince yourself that you are what you wish to be.

The choice between two evils is still a choice.

All stories are about wolves. All women are about wolves.

Freedom, like everything else, is relative.