Margaret Atwood

"Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own."

"Gardening is not a rational act."

"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

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

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