English - The Handmaid's Tale

Quotes

“My name isn’t Offred,…

…I have another name, which nobody uses now because it’s forbidden. I tell myself it doesn’t matter, but what I tell myself is wrong.”

“The Republic of Gilead knows…

…no bounds. Gilead is within you.”

“We are two-legged wombs,…

"…that’s all: sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices.”

“I avoid looking down at my body…

…because I don’t want to see it. I don’t want to look at something that determines me so completely.”

“When power is scarce…

…a little of it is tempting.”

“A rat in a maze…

…is free to go anywhere, so long as it stays inside the maze.”

“The best and most cost-effective way…

…to control women for reproductive and other purposes was through women themselves.” (Historical notes)

“I believe in resistance as I believe…

…there can be no light without shadow; or rather no shadow unless there is also light.”

“Nolite le bastardes…

…carborundorum. Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”

“But whose fault was it?…

…Her fault.”

“Freedom…

…like everything else is relative.”

“There is more than one kind of freedom.

Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from.” (Aunt Lydia)

“Everything except the wings…

…around my face is red: the colour of blood which defines us.”

“If it’s a story, even in my head,…

…I must be telling it to someone.”

“I intend to get out…

…of here. It can’t last forever.”

“One of [her] rules was that [she]…

…would not put any events into the book that had not already happened.”