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
Surfacing
Surfacing
Margaret Atwood: Zitate auf Englisch
“You can think clearly only with your clothes on.”
Quelle: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 143)
Quelle: The Handmaid's Tale
“I am not your justification for existence.”
The Handmaid's Tale
“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”
Quelle: Alias Grace
“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”
Quelle: The Year of the Flood
“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”
Quelle: The Blind Assassin
“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.”
Quelle: Cat's Eye
Surfacing (1972) p. 107
The premise for this quote is now known to be a linguistic myth stemming from the early 20th century work of Franz Boas. This quote by Atwood has been cited as an example of the perpetuation of this myth https://books.google.ca/books/about/White_Lies_about_the_Inuit.html?id=i-osjdNH3g8C.
Variante: The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
“I feel like the word shatter.”
Quelle: The Handmaid's Tale
“This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.”
Quelle: The Blind Assassin
Quelle: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 7 (pp. 39-40)
Quelle: The Handmaid's Tale
“We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?”
Quelle: The Handmaid's Tale
“Never pray for justice, because you might get some.”
Quelle: Cat's Eye
“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
Quelle: The Handmaid's Tale
“Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.”
Quelle: The Handmaid's Tale