The Handmaid's Tale

"I long to touch my daughter."

"I want to be valued, at least."

"I'm so cold, so alone."

"Household is a kingdom."

"She's a woman, but in the most limited sense."

"The walls of the room are soft, padded, like a cell in a madhouse."

"Once I was a scholar and a teacher."

"I am of use."

"None of us can be born without mothers."

"It only takes a few days before the desperations sets in."

"I am not allowed to read."

"Everything was simpler then."

"I didn't think of him as real."

"We are two-legged wombs."

"Aunt Lydia smells like old lady skin."

"I'm alive, I live, I want to keep on living."

"There is more than one kind of freedom."

"I feel like a cow."

"The war is not over."

"I am not my own."

"I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure or a means of reproduction."

"Ignorance is like a blanket that covers the truth."

"We were the people who were not in the papers."

"I'm trying to think of a time when I felt real joy."

"Better never means better for everyone, it always means worse for some."

"They are not gods, they are just men, and occasionally they get sloppy."

"I didn't know who I was anymore."

"He didn't know I could read. Nobody knew."

"I never knew what she wanted. Maybe she didn't know herself."

"It's a way of saying goodbye."