Who said "I try to imagine what it was like before"?

This quote is attributed to Offred.

I try to imagine what it was like before - Offred

"I try to imagine what it was like before"

Offred

Character in The Handmaid's Tale

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"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the gaps between the stories."

"Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."

"I am not her. I am myself."

"The Republic of Gilead, I said. And felt, rather than heard, a kind of silence, like static."