Margaret Atwood Berühmte Zitate
Alias Grace
The Robber Bride
Zitate über Frauen von Margaret Atwood
Bluebeard's Egg
Der Report der Magd
Margaret Atwood Zitate und Sprüche
Der Report der Magd. Übersetzung von Helga Pfetsch. München, 2001.
Original engl.: "There is more than one kind of freedom… 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."
Variante: Es gibt mehr als nur eine Form von Freiheit, sagte Tante Lydia, Freiheit zu und Freiheit von. In den Tagen der Anarchie war es die Freiheit zu. Jetzt bekommt ihr die Freiheit von. Unterschätzt sie nicht.
Der Report der Magd
Surfacing
Bluebeard's Egg
Surfacing
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Margaret Atwood: Zitate auf Englisch
“But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.”
Quelle: Oryx and Crake
“Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.”
Quelle: The Penelopiad
“How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.”
Quelle: The Year of the Flood
“Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.”
Quelle: Oryx and Crake
“People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.”
Quelle: Alias Grace
“When power is scarce, a little of it is tempting.”
Quelle: The Handmaid's Tale
“I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.”
Quelle: Moral Disorder and Other Stories
“What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?”
Quelle: The Blind Assassin
“The proper study of Mankind is Everything.”
Quelle: Oryx and Crake
“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.”
The Blind Assassin
Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman
Turning Pages: The Life and Literature of Margaret Atwood (2007)
I was so proud of them! It was like having 33,000 precocious grandchildren!
"Atwood in the Twittersphere", The New York Review of Books (29 March 2010)
Morning in the Burned House (1995), The Loneliness of the Military Historian
“Everyone said he was a fool.
Everyone said she was a clever woman.
They used the word ensnare.”
Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman
Quelle: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 24