The Handmaid's Tale
Frases célebres de Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood Frases y Citas
“Mejor nunca significa mejor para todos, comenta. Para algunos siempre es peor. Me”
El cuento de la criada
Variante: Mejor nunca significa mejor para todos, comenta. Para algunos siempre es peor.
Moral Disorder
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale
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Surfacing
Fragmento de una entrevista para El Periódico.
Fuente: El futuro según Margaret Atwood. Enrique de Hériz El Periódico 16 de noviembre de 2016 http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/ocio-y-cultura/margaret-atwood-por-ultimo-corazon-nueva-novela-5632880 Consulta 21 de abril de 2017
“Es verdad, escribo un poco a salto de mata.”
Fragmento de una entrevista en El Cultural.
Fragmento de una entrevista, respuesta a por qué no le gusta el género de ficción.
Respuesta a la pregunta de por qué se dedicaba a la escritura.
Margaret Atwood: Frases en inglés
“You can think clearly only with your clothes on.”
Fuente: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 143)
Fuente: The Handmaid's Tale
“I am not your justification for existence.”
The Handmaid's Tale
“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”
Fuente: Alias Grace
“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”
Fuente: The Year of the Flood
“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”
Fuente: The Blind Assassin
“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.”
Fuente: Cat's Eye
Surfacing (1972) p. 107
The premise for this quote is now known to be a linguistic myth stemming from the early 20th century work of Franz Boas. This quote by Atwood has been cited as an example of the perpetuation of this myth https://books.google.ca/books/about/White_Lies_about_the_Inuit.html?id=i-osjdNH3g8C.
Variante: The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
“I feel like the word shatter.”
Fuente: The Handmaid's Tale
“This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.”
Fuente: The Blind Assassin
Fuente: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 7 (pp. 39-40)
Fuente: The Handmaid's Tale
“We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?”
Fuente: The Handmaid's Tale
“Never pray for justice, because you might get some.”
Fuente: Cat's Eye
“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
Fuente: The Handmaid's Tale
“Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.”
Fuente: The Handmaid's Tale