The Handmaid's Tale

"She's more of a woman than I ever was."

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

"There must be something in the water they give us to drink."

"I've never been good at listening."

"Power consists of making people believe you're powerful."

"You don't know how many times I've listened to these words."

"I dream the world without us."

"The eye of God sees everything, the Commander said, but I felt I could give the lie to that."

"I'm alive, I'm alive, inside this moment."

"Nothing is as bad as not knowing."

"We are for breeding purposes: we are two-legged wombs."

"Give me some sign that you remember us as we were."

"In reduced circumstances everyone has to make the best of things."

"I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling."

"It's when I'm trapped that I can think."

"You can't help your thoughts just coming into your head, but you can help dwelling on them."

"I am not your justification for existence."

"There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from."

"Human beings don't like living in a state of uncertainty."

"Context is all."

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print."

"I am not her dead body."

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

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

"She was my mother but she never liked me"

"One more time"

"We lived as we always lived, as human beings do, in the continuation of everyday life"

"I could have said no. I didn't say no"

"She doesn't love me. She doesn't even know me"

"I want to be a subversive act"