Margaret Atwood

"A word after a word after a word is power."

"If you're not falling, you're not skiing."

"Wanting to be Liked is a good motive, but Liking Itself is a better one."

"There is no such thing as a little freedom."

"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum."

"Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."

"Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything except human."

"We're the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, revised every day."

"In the end, we will only conserve what we love, love only what we understand, and understand only what we are taught."

"Telling the truth is like walking on a razor blade."

"You can't deny the absurdity of life."

"The real horror is what we do to each other."

"Purpose keeps you going."

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

"Have you ever thought what ads are actually for? Or what the nightclubs are for? They're all designed to make you feel bad."

"I'm a novelist. I think in stories."

"Don't serve time, let time serve you."

"It's hard to say what the truth is sometimes."

"Survival is insufficient."

"You fit into me like a hook into an eye."

"When you can't escape, you negotiate."

"The Handmaid's Tale is not a prediction. It's a look at where we are now."

"Death by nesting is not a cheerful prospect."

"There's another kind of beauty, terrible and dangerous."

"Human beings are clever, but not wise."

"If this were a movie, it would have a happy ending."

"Oryx and Crake made me think about the future and how precarious it is."

"Every society has its own way of dividing what's power and what isn't."

"The body is a strange machine."

"Bad things are happening to me all the time."