Margaret Atwood Frases famosas
Margaret Atwood apud Dad Squarisi, (6 de agosto de 2006 - "Dicas de português - Escrever é...". Correio Braziliense, Caderno C, p. 4.)
The Handmaid's Tale
Citações de pessoas de Margaret Atwood
“As pessoas esquecem-se sempre das profecias a menos que se realizem.”
na obra "O Assassino Cego", 2000
“Escrever é uma maneira de a voz sobreviver à pessoa”
Margaret Atwood apud Dad Squarisi, (6 de agosto de 2006 - "Dicas de português - Escrever é...". Correio Braziliense, Caderno C, p. 4.)
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood frases e citações
The Handmaid's Tale
“O que você não souber, não lhe trará sofrimento.”
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“Ignorar não é o mesmo que ignorância, exige esforço da nossa parte.”
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Margaret Atwood: Frases em inglês
“This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing.”
Fonte: Surfacing
“I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.”
Fonte: The Handmaid's Tale
“The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.”
Fonte: MaddAddam
“I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.”
Lady Oracle (1976)
Fonte: Surfacing
“Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.”
Fonte: The Blind Assassin
Fonte: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 41 (p. 268)
Fonte: The Handmaid's Tale
“The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.”
Fonte: Surfacing
“You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.”
Fonte: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 194-195)
Fonte: 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.”
Fonte: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 13
Fonte: 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!”
Fonte: The Year of the Flood
“All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.”
Fonte: The Handmaid's Tale