Religion and Theocracy Quotes-THT

I try not to think too much. Like other

things now, thought must be rationed.

There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it

was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating

bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.

I don’t want to look at something

that determines me so completely.

A thing is valued, she says,

only if it is rare and hard to get.

Maybe none of this is about control…maybe it’s about who

can do what to whom and be forgiven for it.

“Why expect one woman to carry out all the functions necessary to the serene running of a household? It isn’t

reasonable or humane. Your daughters will have greater freedom.”

Humanity is so adaptable, my mother would say. Truly amazing, what people

can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

And so I step up, into the

darkness within; or else the light.

We must be cautious about passing moral judgment upon the Gileadean. Surely we have learned by now that such

judgments are of necessity culture-specific…our job is not to censure but to understand.”