Margaret Atwood

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

One can't be angry with a man who is obeying his nature.

You don't get to choose what you remember.

All you have to do is be there. That's the main thing.

The future is a thing that is perpetually breaking in upon the present.

Hope is a thing with feathers. Or else it's a thing with teeth.

Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

The best way to keep a secret is to pretend you don't know it.

Humanity is a work in progress.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.

The moment of recognition is the moment of truth.

We are all stories in the end, just make them good ones, eh?

You can't be a human being without being a political animal.

The past is a mirror, it reflects your present.

Every utopia contains a dystopia.

To be a writer is to be a scavenger.

You don't have to be a man to be a misogynist.

I write to explore, not to explain.

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Optimism is a luxury.