The Handmaid's Tale
Quotes from The Handmaid's Tale
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"Women are communicative, we are trained for that"Offred Relationships
"Fear tastes like metal"Offred Fear
"Pen is envy, penis is envy"Moira Power
"Love is what I want, not what is given"Offred Love
"The real problem is we had no better options"Offred Philosophy
"I am not a doll, I am not a doll"Offred Strength
"I used to think of my body as an instrument of my pleasure"Offred Freedom
"Waste not want not"Serena Joy Work
"Context is everything"Offred Wisdom
"The night is mine, my own time"Offred Solitude
"I want to be valued, to be worth something"Offred
"Freedom is a hard thing to know what to do with"Janine Freedom
"I am not her nor am I you. I am a walking womb, but I am not the womb"Offred
"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print"Offred Truth
"Better never means better for everyone, it always means worse, for some"Offred Politics
"Hope is a risk."Offred Hope
"The system requires my participation."The Commander
"Telling stories is a way of having power."Offred Literature
"I must keep myself in readiness."Offred
"My name is not Offred."Offred
"I could not leave the room."Offred
"Beauty requires cruelty."Serena Joy Beauty
"The day stretches ahead, moment by moment."Offred Time
"I pin my hair to my head."Offred
"Love, I would have said, but what did I know?"Offred Love
"Who shall I suppose I am?"Offred
"I am not a creature of the state."Offred
"You can't build a sustainable economy on human suffering."The Commander
"I wait in the chair."Offred Patience
"Everything I value is tied to freedom."Offred Freedom