da Il canto di Penelope. Il mito del ritorno di Odisseo
Margaret Atwood frasi celebri
Non sottovalutatelo.
Il racconto dell'Ancella
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale
Frasi su tempo di Margaret Atwood
Il racconto dell'Ancella
Il racconto dell'Ancella
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood Frasi e Citazioni
Tra poco ci sarà più gente di quanto la Terra possa sostenere.
Il racconto dell'Ancella
Alias Grace
The Handmaid's Tale
Cat's Eye
citato in Margaret Atwood, Ontario Review Press, 1990
Oryx and Crake
The Handmaid's Tale
“La Natura esige, per gli uomini, la varietà.”
The Handmaid's Tale
“Un film sul passato non è lo stesso che il passato.”
The Handmaid's Tale
“Fa’ della tua vita un tributo per chi fu tuo.”
The Handmaid's Tale
A war among women, as opposed to a war on women, is always pleasing to those who do not wish women well.
“Una parola dopo una parola dopo una parola è potere.”
Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro della letteratura, traduzione di Daniele Ballarini, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 14. ISBN 9788858024416
Margaret Atwood: Frasi in inglese
“Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.”
Origine: 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.”
Origine: The Blind Assassin
“I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.”
Origine: The Blind Assassin
“Faith is only a word, embroidered.”
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale
“The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.”
Origine: 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)
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale
Contesto: 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.
“We understand more than we know.”
Origine: Oryx and Crake
“You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.”
Origine: The Year of the Flood
“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”
Origine: Oryx and Crake
“Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?”
Origine: 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.
Origine: Cat's Eye (1988)
“A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.”
Origine: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 20 (p. 121)
“Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?”
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale