Zitate von Margaret Atwood und Alice Laidlaw Munro

Margaret Atwood
* 18. November 1939 Ottawa, Kanada –

Alias Grace –

The Handmaid's Tale

»A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women«, A Handmaid's Tale, 1985 S. 130-131
nach dem alten Spruch: "A chicken is just an egg's way of making more eggs"; ähnlich hielt Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976) das Gen für die eigentliche Überlebenseinheit.

Alice Laidlaw Munro
* 10.7. 1931, Wingham, Ontario, Kanada. Erzählerin –

Autorin und Links

"... she cried as women always did when they could not win the argument any other way." (S. 196)

[Bet:] "I always think the best of people. Right up till they kick me in the teeth." (S. 251)

"... music that demanded your attention and then didn't go anywhere, or at least didn't go anywhere soon enough. Classical." (S. 267)
Alle Zitate aus: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage,

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