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
“I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.”
Quelle: Lady Oracle
“You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.”
Quelle: Oryx and Crake
“I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.”
Quelle: Oryx and Crake
“Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.”
Quelle: Surfacing
“How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.”
Quelle: The Handmaid's Tale
“There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.”
Quelle: The Blind Assassin
“Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.”
Quelle: The Handmaid's Tale
“How were we to know we were happy?”
Variante: We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
Quelle: The Handmaid's Tale
Quelle: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 192-193)
Quelle: The Handmaid's Tale
Kontext: I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real.
“I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.”
Quelle: Oryx and Crake
“Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.”
Quelle: The Robber Bride
“So much better to travel than to arrive.”
Quelle: The Blind Assassin