Margaret Atwood

"What we call peace is often just the absence of visible conflict."

"Every person contains multitudes."

"Success is more dangerous than failure."

"Time moves differently when you're waiting."

"The greatest luxury is the freedom to choose."

"Wisdom comes from accepting what you cannot change."

"Hope without action is just wishful thinking."

"Education is the most radical political act."

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

"Art is the only thing that survives politics."

"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"Telling the truth is like being a juggler; you have to keep several balls in the air at once."

"We're the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves."

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed woman is a freak."

"You can't help them. They have to help themselves."

"The moment of change is the only poem."

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

"Waste not want not. I am not in favour of waste."

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

"Resistance and religious feeling are the same thing."

"I'm rather like a fireman. When I go to work, I put on my clothes and get on with it."

"To be human is to be constantly in a state of wonder."

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

"The things we invent are mirrors of our deepest nature."

"Every novel is an act of faith."

"You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, but you can break eggs without making an omelette."

"When women start to shed their chains, oppressors react with violence."

"Silence is what I was told to do when I was a girl."

"I don't mind being a character in someone's story, as long as it's a good story."

"The real revolution is to imagine you are free."