94 Handmaid Quotes
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Famous Handmaid Quotes
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. — James Connolly
O woman, perfect woman! what distractionWas meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil! — John Fletcher
A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral. — Catharine Beecher
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others. — Thomas Hardy
Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral. — R. Heber Newton
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. — Socrates
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. — Thomas Hood
Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her. — Seneca
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. — John Milton
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. — Honore de Balzac
Through a woman [Eve] a curse fell upon the earth; through a woman [Mary] as well there returned to the earth a blessing. — Peter Damian
Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman. — Euripides
Women are nothing but machines for producing children. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Woman is at once apple and serpent. — Heinrich Heine
Short Handmaid Quotes
- Hunger is the handmaid of genius — Mark Twain
- Illegitimis non carborundum. Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down. — Joseph Stilwell
- Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some. — Margaret Atwood
- Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently. — Margaret Atwood
- Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. — Margaret Atwood
- Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed . — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Education should be the handmaid of citizenship. — Calvin Coolidge
- A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy. — Thomas Brooks
- The past has always been the handmaid of authority. — J. H. Plumb
- Nemesis is one of God's handmaids. — William Rounseville Alger
Handmaid's Quotes
The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her. — Robert Aris Willmott
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. — John Dryden
How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word. — Margaret Atwood
A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women. — Margaret Atwood
Handmaids Tale Quotes
Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. — Margaret Atwood
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories. — Margaret Atwood
I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something. — Margaret Atwood
I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely. — Margaret Atwood
We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice. — Margaret Atwood
Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary. — Margaret Atwood
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want? — Margaret Atwood
We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability? — Margaret Atwood
Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or Don't be. I suppose you could say that. — Margaret Atwood
I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born. — Margaret Atwood
Handmaiden Quotes
Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. — Kofi Annan
Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine. — Hannah Hurnard
Yellow is my favorite, but what is yellow? Handmaiden to white, it is a slight tarnish of pure light. Take away a bit of whites absolute luminosity, and what remains is yellow -- sunlike, golden as a crown, buttercups in a field, marsh marigolds, a finch's wing, a plastic flute. — Richard Grossinger
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity. — Chuck Jones
Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project. — Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. — Horace
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. — Branch Rickey
Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision. — Barber Conable
Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other. — Ken Danby
Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new. — Sayings
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 Margaret Atwood |
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 James Connolly |
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 John Fletcher |
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 Friedrich Nietzsche |
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 Catharine Beecher |
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 Thomas Hardy |
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More Handmaid Quotes
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. — Thomas Bulfinch
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly. — George William Curtis
Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death. — James A. Garfield
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things. — James Howell
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws -- these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They may make its task smooth and grateful; they may associate themselves with its victories, or they may prepare its way. — Henry Parry Liddon
we lived in the gaps between the stories — Margaret Atwood
By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on. — Margaret Atwood
The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was. — Margaret Atwood
By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. — Margaret Atwood
The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil — Margaret Atwood
I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will. — Margaret Atwood
Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either. — Margaret Atwood
That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. — Margaret Atwood
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. — James Russell Lowell
All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion. — Francis Bacon
Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be viewed in any other light than as the efficient Auxiliary and Handmaid of Religion? — William Buckland
Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy. — Richard Morris
Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought. — Karl Kraus
Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral. — William Everson
Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self. — William Shakespeare
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