43 Handmaids Tale Quotes

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Handmaid Quotes

Hunger is the handmaid of genius — Mark Twain

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. — Thomas Bulfinch

Illegitimis non carborundum. Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down. — Joseph Stilwell

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

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

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some. — 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

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

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

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

More Handmaids Tale Quotes

Illegitimis non carborundum. Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down. — Joseph Stilwell

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

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some. — 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

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

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

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

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word. — 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

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women. — Margaret Atwood

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