Handmaids Tale - Critical Quotes / Atwood Quotes

“Offred’s power is in language”

Carol Beran

“there is no sisterhood, only division and disempowerment”

Wisker

“Women are imprisoned by the standards of beauty expected of them”

Wollsonecraft

“Gilead is most wholly the USA, embodying its past, its present and its potential future”

Dodson

“Moira is Offred’s alter ego”

Lee Briscoe

“After all, The Handmaid is also a writer. She has written this book. She may have survived”

Lehann-Haupt

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a dedication to Mary Webster…she is slightly a symbol of hope because they didn’t actually manage to kill her”

Atwood

“A word after a word after a word is power”

Atwood

“I was very careful to have nothing that we hadn’t already done”

Atwood

“Could do it all, we have done it all”

Atwood

“Her dreams and desires are unimportant. Her goal is survival”

Goldbatt

“With control of the past comes domination of the future”

Finigan