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
“This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing.”
Fuente: Surfacing
“I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.”
Fuente: The Handmaid's Tale
“The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.”
Fuente: MaddAddam
“I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.”
Lady Oracle (1976)
Fuente: Surfacing
“Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.”
Fuente: The Blind Assassin
Fuente: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 41 (p. 268)
Fuente: The Handmaid's Tale
“The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.”
Fuente: Surfacing
“You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.”
Fuente: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 194-195)
Fuente: The Handmaid's Tale
Contexto: (She is reciting the Lord’s prayer) Now we come to forgiveness. Don’t worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don’t let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.
“But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.”
Fuente: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 13
Fuente: The Handmaid's Tale
Contexto: These pictures were supposed to be erotic, and I thought they were, at the time; but I see now what they were really about. They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. They were paintings about boredom. But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.
“Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine! Mine!”
Fuente: The Year of the Flood
“All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.”
Fuente: The Handmaid's Tale