Margaret Atwood cytaty

Margaret Eleanor „Peggy” Atwood – kanadyjska pisarka, poetka i krytyk literacki, aktywistka społeczna i ekologiczna. Zdobywczyni Nagrody Bookera w 2000 i 2019, laureatka Nagrody Księcia Asturii w 2008, wymieniana wśród kandydatów do literackiej Nagrody Nobla. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Listopad 1939   •   Natępne imiona Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Margaret Atwood słynne cytaty

„Dwa zła nie czynią jednego dobra.”

Źródło: Namiot (2006), tłum. Justyna Gardzińska

Margaret Atwood: Cytaty po angielsku

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

Kontekst: "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.

“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”

Margaret Atwood książka The Handmaid's Tale

Źródło: The Handmaid's Tale

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

Margaret Atwood książka The Blind Assassin

Źródło: 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)
Kontekst: 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 książka Morning in the Burned House

Morning in the Burned House (1995), The Loneliness of the Military Historian
Kontekst: 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 książka The Blind Assassin

Źródło: The Blind Assassin (2000)
Kontekst: 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 książka The Robber Bride

The Robber Bride (1993), Ch. 6

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

Margaret Atwood książka The Handmaid's Tale

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

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

Margaret Atwood książka Bluebeard's Egg

Źródło: Bluebeard's Egg

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

Margaret Atwood książka The Handmaid's Tale

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

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