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Ма́ргарет Элеано́р Э́твуд — канадская англоязычная писательница, поэтесса, литературный критик, активистка охраны природы и феминистка. Лауреат премии Артура Кларка 1987 года за роман «Рассказ служанки», премии принцессы Астурийской, премии генерал-губернатора Канады , Букеровских премий 2000 и 2019 года , премии Франца Кафки четырежды финалистка Букеровской премии. Относится к наиболее известным современным англоязычным писателям. Компаньон ордена Канады. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Ноябрь 1939   •   Другие имена Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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„Ветер сметает с мозгов паутину, и дышишь полной грудью“

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Источник: Каменная подстилка (сборник)

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“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

Контексте: "Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine. (I love that wonderful rhetorical device, "a male friend of mine." It's often used by female journalists when they want to say something particularly bitchy but don't want to be held responsible for it themselves. It also lets people know that you do have male friends, that you aren't one of those fire-breathing mythical monsters, The Radical Feminists, who walk around with little pairs of scissors and kick men in the shins if they open doors for you. "A male friend of mine" also gives — let us admit it — a certain weight to the opinions expressed.) So this male friend of mine, who does by the way exist, conveniently entered into the following dialogue. "I mean," I said, "men are bigger, most of the time, they can run faster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more money and power." "They're afraid women will laugh at them," he said. "Undercut their world view." Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.

“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”

Margaret Atwood книга Surfacing

Источник: Surfacing

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”

Margaret Atwood книга The Handmaid's Tale

Источник: The Handmaid's Tale

“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”

Margaret Atwood книга The Handmaid's Tale

Источник: The Handmaid's Tale

“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.”

Margaret Atwood книга The Blind Assassin

Источник: The Blind Assassin

“After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing”

On Writing Poetry (1995)
Контексте: After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight

“My trade is courage and atrocities.
I look at them and do not condemn.
I write things down the way they happened,
as near as can be remembered.
I don’t ask why, because it is mostly the same.
Wars happen because the ones who start them
think they can win.”

Margaret Atwood книга Morning in the Burned House

Morning in the Burned House (1995), The Loneliness of the Military Historian
Контексте: Instead of this, I tell
what I hope will pass as truth.
A blunt thing, not lovely.
The truth is seldom welcome,
especially at dinner,
though I am good at what I do.
My trade is courage and atrocities.
I look at them and do not condemn.
I write things down the way they happened,
as near as can be remembered.
I don’t ask why, because it is mostly the same.
Wars happen because the ones who start them
think they can win.

“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.”

Margaret Atwood книга The Blind Assassin

Источник: The Blind Assassin (2000)
Контексте: All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. …Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.

“I am not mad because I'm a woman… I'm mad because you're an asshole.”

Margaret Atwood книга Cat's Eye

Источник: Cat's Eye

“War is what happens when language fails.”

Margaret Atwood книга The Robber Bride

The Robber Bride (1993), Ch. 6

“Do not let the bastards grind you down.”
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

Margaret Atwood книга The Handmaid's Tale

Вариант: Do not let the bastards grind you down.
Источник: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 9 (p. 52)
Источник: The Handmaid's Tale

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

Margaret Atwood книга Bluebeard's Egg

Источник: Bluebeard's Egg

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”

Margaret Atwood книга The Handmaid's Tale

Вариант: We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Источник: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 10 (p. 56)
Источник: The Handmaid's Tale