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 kniha Z hlubin
Surfacing
Margaret Atwood kniha Z hlubin
Surfacing
Margaret Atwood: Citáty anglicky
“Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.”
Margaret Atwood kniha The Year of the Flood
Zdroj: 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.”
Margaret Atwood kniha Slepý vrah
Zdroj: The Blind Assassin
“I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.”
Margaret Atwood kniha Slepý vrah
Zdroj: The Blind Assassin
“Faith is only a word, embroidered.”
Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice
Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale
“The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.”
Margaret Atwood kniha Slepý vrah
Zdroj: The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood kniha Oryx and Crake
Zdroj: Oryx and Crake
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.”
Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice
Historical Notes (p. 311)
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Zdroj: 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.”
Margaret Atwood kniha The Year of the Flood
Zdroj: The Year of the Flood
“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”
Margaret Atwood kniha Oryx and Crake
Zdroj: Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood kniha Oryx and Crake
Zdroj: Oryx and Crake
“Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?”
Margaret Atwood kniha The Penelopiad
Zdroj: The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood kniha Slepý vrah
Zdroj: The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood kniha Oryx and Crake
Zdroj: Oryx and Crake
“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.”
Margaret Atwood kniha Cat's Eye
Varianta: Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Zdroj: Cat's Eye (1988)
“A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.”
Zdroj: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 20 (p. 121)
“Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?”
Margaret Atwood kniha Příběh služebnice
Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale
