Margaret Atwood

"Give yourself permission to be human."

"Every society has its myths."

"Hope is a thing we must hand on to others."

"You cannot deny that you are human."

"The moment of betrayal is the moment when you know what you're truly made of."

"Write like no one else is watching."

"Women are not made of flesh and blood and bone. They're made of stories."

"Fear is not the opposite of courage. Indifference is."

"I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it."

"The past is not really past; it is always here."

"We are too specialized. We are too fragmented."

"Atrocity is not always the fault of a single madman. It is often the result of systematic denial."

"If you believe in yourself and your art, that's the most important thing."

"The truth is that the world broke in half on the day the Twin Towers fell."

"Suffering is not ennobling. It's just suffering."

"You can't stop yourself from feeling, but you can decide what to do about it."

"Pen is the barrel of a gun."

"Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred."

"Women's writing is not a separate category. It's literature."

"Freedom is a hard thing to want when you've been denied it."

"The age of the mind is upon us."

"After all, what is the real cost of being forgotten?"

"Beauty is a currency; treat it as such."

"What a man is is an addiction to power."

"The fact that you can't explain your emotions doesn't mean they aren't valid."

"Evil is not something that occurs to you, it's something that occurs to other people."

"You must do the thing you fear to do the work you want to do."

"A prayer is a wish for something before you know it will happen."

"There are different ways of being a person."

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us."