Handmaid’s tale quotes

“We still had our bodies. That was our fantasy.”

Night - Ch1

“This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women,”

Shopping - Ch2

“A return to traditional values.”

Shopping - Ch2

“Thought must be rationed.”

Shopping - Ch2

“The colour of blood,”

Shopping - Ch2

“A sitting room in which I never sit,”

Shopping - Ch2

“I hunger to commit the act of touch.”

Shopping - Ch2

“My shatter proof window”

Shopping - Ch3

“She didnt step aside to let me in,”

Shopping - Ch3

“Till death do us part. It’s final.”

Shopping - Ch3

“The truth is that she is my spy, as I am hers.”

Shopping - Ch4

“The young ones are often the most dangerous, the most fanatical,”

Shopping - Ch4

“We try not to hear them.”

Shopping - Ch4

“Men who aren’t yet permitted to touch women.”

Shopping - Ch4

“I enjoy the power”

Shopping - Ch4

“An object of envy and desire,”

Shopping - Ch5

“We have learnt to see the world in gasps.”

Shopping - Ch6

“I think of her as a woman for whom every act is done for show,”

Shopping - Ch6

“The night is mine…as long as I don’t move.”

Night - Ch7

“I have control over the ending,”

Night - Ch7

“She doesn’t make speeches any more. She has become speechless.”

Waiting room - Ch8

“Before we were married and I solidified.”

Waiting room - Ch9

“There is no such thing as a sterile man”

Waiting room - Ch11

“The knowledge of his power hangs nevertheless in the air as he pats my thigh,”

Waiting room - Ch11

“I don’t want to look at something that determines me so completely.”

Waiting room - Ch12

“as if I’m a piece of furniture.”

Household - Ch14

“Even the commander is subject to its whims.”

Household - Ch14

“He has something we don’t have, he has the word.”

Household - Ch15

“The tension between her lack of control and her attempt to suppress it is horrible.”

Household - Ch15

“The rings of her left hand cut into my fingers.”

Household - Ch16

“He wishes to diminish things, myself included.”

Jezebel’s - Ch36

“There are no white wings to keep me from it.”

Jezebel’s - Ch37

“Nature demands variety, for men.”

Jezebel’s - Ch37

“I want gallantry from her, swashbuckling, heroism, single-handed combat. Something I lack.”

Jezebel’s - Ch38

“a cattle brand. It means ownership.”

Jezebel’s - Ch39

“I tell him my real name, and feel that therefore I am known.”

Salvaging - Ch41

“my complicity in the death of this woman.”

Salvaging - Ch42

“The three bodies hang there, … like birds with their wings clipped, like flightless birds, wrecked angels.”

Salvaging - Ch43

“the light is too bright for him. They’ve kept him in the darkness.”

Salvaging - Ch43

“I feel, for the first time, their true power.”

Salvaging - Ch45

“they are to keep us from seeing,”

Shopping - Ch2