The Handmaid's Tale
Quotes from The Handmaid's Tale
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"I don't want to be here anymore."Offred
"She must be feeling a lot of pressure."Serena Joy
"I'm still alive, which is something."Offred Gratitude
"This above all: to thine own self be true."Offred
"I'm too much myself to be able to believe it."Offred
"Praise be is what they say now."Offred
"The word she said now will not be used."Offred
"How to account for this? I can't."Offred
"I don't want to be Serena Joy and neither does she, maybe."Offred
"The eye is pale blue, ice-coloured, and blank."Offred Fear
"We are made powerless by our anonymity."Offred
"There are things I can't say out loud."Offred
"I'm learning to keep quiet and listen."Offred
"A Chair is a Chair."Offred
"I am watching her face. I am searching for approval."Offred
"Knowledge is power, but I need my ignorance in order to survive."Offred
"I am alive. I live. I have a body. I can feel it, here, now."Offred
"This is a way of talking about things when you can't talk about them."Offred
"We are not supposed to know about them."Janine
"A girl was a girl."Offred
"I wait. I don't know for what I am waiting for."Offred Hope
"This is not a regime that does things halfway."Offred Power
"Aunt Lydia says a woman is a vessel."Offred
"I feel very old."Offred Time
"My name isn't Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now."Offred
"The absence of emotion is of no moment."The Commander
"We are two-legged wombs."Offred
"Give me children or I shall die."Serena Joy
"I am not my body. My body is a tool."Offred
"Context is all."Offred Truth