Handmaids Tale - Critical Quotes / Atwood Quotes

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“Offred’s power is in language”

Carol Beran

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2

“there is no sisterhood, only division and disempowerment”

Wisker

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3

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

Wollsonecraft

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4

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

Dodson

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5

“Moira is Offred’s alter ego”

Lee Briscoe

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6

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

Lehann-Haupt

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7

‘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

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8

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

Atwood

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9

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

Atwood

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10

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

Atwood

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

Goldbatt

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12

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

Finigan

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