The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Margaret Atwood

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.
Margaret Atwood

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
Margaret Atwood

War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret Atwood

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

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
Margaret Atwood

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
Margaret Atwood