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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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Margaret Atwood nejznámější citáty

„Prosit o odpuštění znamená moc, a odepřít je - nebo udělit - představuje moc, možná ze všeho největší.“

Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice

„Pokud je národní duševní nemocí Spojených států megalomanie, v Kanadě je to paranoidní schizofrenie.“

Margaret Atwood

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]

„Moje seznámení s náboženstvím proběhlo způsobem, jakým se většina dětí v té době seznamovala se sexem, ne na ulici, ale na betonovém školním dvoře se štěrkovými cestičkami, během zimních měsíců, kdy jsem chodila do školy. Děti tu postávaly ve skupinkách, držely se za ruce v palčácích a špitaly si. Strašily mě líčením, že na nebi je nějaký mrtvý stařec, který vidí všechno, co dělám, a já jsem se jim pomstila tím, že jsem jim řekla, jak se rodí miminka. Některé matky pak telefonovaly mojí matce a stěžovaly si na mě, ale já jsem přesvědčená, že mě jejich děti vyděsily víc než já je: ony mi nevěřily, zato já jim ano.“

Margaret Atwood kniha Z hlubin

Surfacing

„V určitém okamžiku se musel můj krk nějak uzavřít, jako když zamrzne rybník nebo se zacelí rána, a já jsem zůstala uvězněná ve své hlavě; od té chvíle se ode mě všechno odráželo, jako bych byla uvnitř nějaké skleněné vázy nebo procházela vesnicí, jejíž obyvatele sice vidím, ale neslyším, protože jim nerozumím. Stěny lahve zkreslují obraz i vnějšímu pozorovateli: žába ve sklenici vypadá široká; když se na mě dívali, musela jsem jim připadat směšná.“

Margaret Atwood kniha Z hlubin

Surfacing

„Minulost je mnohem bezpečnější, protože cokoli v ní je, se už stalo. Nelze to změnit, takže se svým způsobem není čeho bát.“

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Margaret Atwood: Citáty anglicky

“But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Oryx and Crake

Zdroj: Oryx and Crake

“How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha The Robber Bride

Zdroj: The Robber Bride

“Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha The Penelopiad

Zdroj: The Penelopiad

“Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?”

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Margaret Atwood kniha The Year of the Flood

Zdroj: The Year of the Flood

“Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Oryx and Crake

Zdroj: Oryx and Crake

“People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Alias Grace

Zdroj: Alias Grace

“It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice

Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale

“I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice

Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale

“it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Z hlubin

Zdroj: Surfacing

“If you don't like it, change it, we said, to each other and to ourselves. And so we would change for the man, for another one. Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice

Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale

“I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.”

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Margaret Atwood

Zdroj: Moral Disorder and Other Stories

“What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Slepý vrah

Zdroj: The Blind Assassin

“But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Slepý vrah

Zdroj: The Blind Assassin

“I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.”

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“The proper study of Mankind is Everything.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Oryx and Crake

Zdroj: Oryx and Crake

“Life is warped. I'm just in sync.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha MaddAddam

Zdroj: MaddAddam

“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Slepý vrah

The Blind Assassin

“The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.”

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The Progressive interview (2010)

“He was not condemned to death, freedom awaited
him. What was the temptation, the one that worked?
Perhaps he wanted to live with a woman whose life
he had saved, who had seen down into the earth but
had nevertheless followed him back up to life. It was
his only chance to be a hero, to one person at least,
for if he became the hangman the others would
despise him. He was in prison for wounding another
man, on one finger of the right hand, with a sword.
This too is history.”

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Margaret Atwood

Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman

“I can tell you that once upon a time when I was doing public events people would ask me, "What do you think about the arts?, What do you think of the role of women?, What do you think of men?, What do you think of all of these things?", and now they ask one thing, and that one thing is this, "Is there hope?"”

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Turning Pages: The Life and Literature of Margaret Atwood (2007)

“I soon had a few thousand people I didn’t know sending me messages like “OMG! Is it really you?” “I love it when old ladies blog,” one early follower remarked. … and they really shone when, during the Olympics, I said that "Own the podium" was too brash to be Canadian, and suggested "A podium might be nice." Their own variations poured onto a feed tagged #cpodium: "A podium! For me?" "Rent the podium, see if we like it." "Mind if I squeeze by you to get onto that podium?"”

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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)

“In general I might agree with you:
women should not contemplate war,
should not weigh tactics impartially,
or evade the word enemy,
or view both sides and denounce nothing.
Women should march for peace,
or hand out white feathers to arouse bravery,
spit themselves on bayonets
to protect their babies,
whose skulls will be split anyway,
or, having been raped repeatedly,
hang themselves with their own hair.
These are the functions that inspire general comfort.
That, and the knitting of socks for the troops
and a sort of moral cheerleading.
Also: mourning the dead.
Sons, lovers, and so forth.
All the killed children.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Morning in the Burned House

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.”

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Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman

“He's just a contact of hers, which is not the same as a friend. While she was in the hospital she decided that most of her friends were really just contacts.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Bodily Harm

Bodily Harm (1981)

“He was not a monster, to her. Probably he had some endearing trait: he whistled, off key, in the shower, he had a yen for truffles, he called his dog Liebchen and made it sit up for little pieces of raw steak. How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.”

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Margaret Atwood

Zdroj: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 24

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