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Author: Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale
What would you like to read tonight?" he says. This too has become routine. So far I've been through a Mademoiselle magazine, an old Esquire from the eighties, a Ms., a magazine I can remember vaguely as having been around my mother's various apartments while I was growing up, and a Reader's Digest. He even has novels. I've read a Raymond Chandler, and right now I'm halfway through Hard Times, by Charles Dickens. On these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before the next long starvation. If it were eating it would be the gluttony of the famished; if it were sex it would be a swift furtive stand-up in an alley somewhere.
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Margaret Atwood _ Wilderness Tips
It's the forties look," she says to George, hand on her hip, doing a pirouette. "Rosie the Riveter. From the war. Remember her?"George, whose name is not really George, does not remember. He spent the forties rooting through garbage bag heaps and begging, and doing other things unsuitable for a child. He has a dim memory of some film star posed on a calendar tattering on a latrine wall. Maybe this is the one Prue means. He remembers for an instant his intense resentment of the bright, ignorant smile, the well-fed body. A couple of buddies had helped him take her apart with the rusty blade from a kitchen knife they'd found somewhere in the rubble. He does not consider telling any of this to Prue.
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Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale
Vosotros los jóvenes no sabéis apreciar las cosas, proseguía. No sabéis lo que hemos tenido que pasar para lograr que estéis donde estáis. Míralo, es él quien pela las zanahorias. ¿Sabéis cuántas vidas de mujeres, cuántos cuerpos de mujeres han tenido que arrollar los tanques para llegar a esta situación? La cocina es mi pasatiempo predilecto, decía Luke. Disfruto cocinando. Un pasatiempo muy original, replicaba mi madre. No tienes por qué darme explicaciones. En otros tiempos no te habrían permitido tener semejante pasatiempo, te habrían llamado marica. Vamos, madre, le decía yo. No discutamos por tonterías. Tonterías, repetía amargamente. Las llamas tonterías. Veo que no entiendes. No entiendes nada de lo que estoy diciendo.
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Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale
Its racist policies, for instance, were firmly rooted in the pre-Gilead period, and racist fears provided some of the emotional fuel that allowed the Gilead takeover to succeed as well as it did.
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Margaret Atwood _ Cat's Eye
I'm not mad because I'm a woman," I say. "I'm mad because you're an asshole.
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Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale
This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.
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Margaret Atwood _ The Heart Goes Last
The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. "We don't think of the clients here as dying," one of them said to him on his first visit. "After all everyone's dying, just some of us more slowly.
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Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale
I still have it in me to feel sorry for him. Moira is right, I am a wimp.
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Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale
That is a reconstruction, too.
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Margaret Atwood _ The Heart Goes Last
Stan got the message. He allowed the chicken assignations. What did that make him? A chicken pimp. Better than dead.
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Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale
Red all over the cupboard, mirth rhymes with birth, oh to die of laughter.
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Margaret Atwood _ Morning in the Burned House
Messy love is better than none.I guess. I'm no authorityon sane living.
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