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