58 Handmaids Tale Quotes
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Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen. — Lauren DeStefano
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. — George Orwell
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. — George Eliot
All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins. — W. E. B. Du Bois
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny. — African Proverbs
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
When a bitter woman takes over the house, the family she rules is doomed. — African Proverbs
When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves. — Ally Condie
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own. — Ally Condie
In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises. — Margaret Sanger
Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon. — Qiu Jin
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. — George Orwell
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. — Pearl Buck
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. — Oscar Wilde
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
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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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