Margaret Atwood nejznámější citáty
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]
Margaret Atwood: Citáty anglicky
Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For (1997)
“Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.”
Wilderness Tips (1991)
Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For (1997)
Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For (1997)
On Writing Poetry (1995)
“I am yours. If you feed me garbage,
I will sing a song of garbage.
This is a hymn.”
"Pig Song" http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=21982
Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1976)
“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Nobody said when.”
Zdroj: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 15 (p. 89)
Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman
On Writing Poetry (1995)
“A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there’s less of you.”
Time magazine (19 March 1973)
Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For (1997)
Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For (1997)
“A movie about the past is not the same as the past.”
Zdroj: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 37 (p. 235)
Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman
Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman
“Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.”
Cat's Eye (1988)
Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman
“Freedom, like everything else, is relative.”
Zdroj: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 36 (p. 231)
Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman
"Atwood in the Twittersphere", The New York Review of Books (29 March 2010) http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/482335188/atwood-in-the-twittersphere
“Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.”
Oryx and Crake (2003)
Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For (1997)
Morning in the Burned House (1995), The Loneliness of the Military Historian
"They eat out"
Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1976)
Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For (1997)