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
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Bluebeard's Egg
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Margaret Atwood: Zitate auf Englisch
“Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.”
Quelle: The Year of the Flood
“She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.”
Quelle: The Blind Assassin
“I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.”
Quelle: The Blind Assassin
“Faith is only a word, embroidered.”
Quelle: The Handmaid's Tale
“The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.”
Quelle: The Blind Assassin
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.”
Historical Notes (p. 311)
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Quelle: The Handmaid's Tale
Kontext: As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.
“You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.”
Quelle: The Year of the Flood
“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”
Quelle: Oryx and Crake
“Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?”
Quelle: The Penelopiad
“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.”
Variante: Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Quelle: Cat's Eye (1988)
“A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.”
Quelle: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 20 (p. 121)
“Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?”
Quelle: The Handmaid's Tale