"The Handmaid's Tale" Quotes
In a dystopian future where a theocratic regime has taken over the United States, women are subjugated and forced into reproductive servitude, with the story following one such woman, Offred, as she navigates this oppressive society.
fiction | 516 pages | Published in 2016
Quotes
Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print.
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Freedom, like everything else, is relative.
Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.
There is more than one kind of freedom… Freedom to and freedom from.
I am not your justification for existence.
The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you’ve been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil.
I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it.
