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Margaret Eleanor Atwoodová, OC, O.Ont, FRSC je kanadská spisovatelka, básnířka, literární kritička, a feministická a sociální aktivistka. Je jednou z nejvíce ceněných autorek beletrie současné doby; za její literární dílo se jí dostalo mezinárodního uznání. Mezi lety 1984 až 1986 byla prezidentkou PEN klubu. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. listopad 1939   •   Další jména Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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„Pokud je národní duševní nemocí Spojených států megalomanie, v Kanadě je to paranoidní schizofrenie.“

v doslovu sbírky The Journals of Susanna Moodie z roku 1970
Originál: (en) If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Zdroj: [Wilson, Sharon Rose, Margaret Atwood's textual assassinations: recent poetry and fiction, Svazek 1, Ohio State University Press, 2003, 978-0-81420-929-5, 16, anglicky]

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“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

Kontext: "Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine. (I love that wonderful rhetorical device, "a male friend of mine." It's often used by female journalists when they want to say something particularly bitchy but don't want to be held responsible for it themselves. It also lets people know that you do have male friends, that you aren't one of those fire-breathing mythical monsters, The Radical Feminists, who walk around with little pairs of scissors and kick men in the shins if they open doors for you. "A male friend of mine" also gives — let us admit it — a certain weight to the opinions expressed.) So this male friend of mine, who does by the way exist, conveniently entered into the following dialogue. "I mean," I said, "men are bigger, most of the time, they can run faster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more money and power." "They're afraid women will laugh at them," he said. "Undercut their world view." Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.

“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.”

Margaret Atwood kniha Slepý vrah

Zdroj: The Blind Assassin

“After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing”

On Writing Poetry (1995)
Kontext: After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight

“My trade is courage and atrocities.
I look at them and do not condemn.
I write things down the way they happened,
as near as can be remembered.
I don’t ask why, because it is mostly the same.
Wars happen because the ones who start them
think they can win.”

Margaret Atwood kniha Morning in the Burned House

Morning in the Burned House (1995), The Loneliness of the Military Historian
Kontext: Instead of this, I tell
what I hope will pass as truth.
A blunt thing, not lovely.
The truth is seldom welcome,
especially at dinner,
though I am good at what I do.
My trade is courage and atrocities.
I look at them and do not condemn.
I write things down the way they happened,
as near as can be remembered.
I don’t ask why, because it is mostly the same.
Wars happen because the ones who start them
think they can win.

“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.”

Margaret Atwood kniha Slepý vrah

Zdroj: The Blind Assassin (2000)
Kontext: All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. …Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.

“War is what happens when language fails.”

Margaret Atwood kniha The Robber Bride

The Robber Bride (1993), Ch. 6

“Do not let the bastards grind you down.”
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice

Varianta: Do not let the bastards grind you down.
Zdroj: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 9 (p. 52)
Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

Margaret Atwood kniha Bluebeard's Egg

Zdroj: Bluebeard's Egg

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”

Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice

Varianta: We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Zdroj: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 10 (p. 56)
Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale

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