Margaret Atwood

"Wisdom comes with age and experience."

"Happiness is found in simple things."

"Success is defined by you alone."

"True friends are rare treasures."

"Family bonds are unbreakable."

"Hope springs eternal."

"Courage grows with each brave act."

"In the end, we are the stories we tell ourselves."

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

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

"We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship Earth without energy peace, and world peace."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a form of liberation."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"If you're not annoying somebody, you're not alive."

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

"Creativity is not a luxury; it is a necessity."

"Women are not magical, nor are they stupid. They are human beings."

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

"You can't help them. They can only help themselves."

"Time is compressed in grief."

"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only."

"Pretend to be dead. That way you can observe everything."

"Fear cannot be overcome by pretending it does not exist."

"My name is not Margaret but that is what the documents say."

"Orangutans are like people but not like people."

"The real story isn't the story you think you're telling."

"We thought we were being mature, but we were only being patient."

"Discipline is everything but not what you think."

"I'm a word person. People are words."

"The question is not what we have, but what we do with what we have."