Quotes of: Handmaid Keyword

To want is to have a weakness.

The Handmaid's Tale

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

The Handmaid's Tale

We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.

The Handmaid's Tale

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

The Handmaid's Tale

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

The Handmaid's Tale

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

The Handmaid's Tale

We have learned to see the world in gasps.

The Handmaid's Tale

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

The Handmaid's Tale

Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen—to be —is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

The Handmaid's Tale

A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon.

The Handmaid's Tale

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

The Handmaid's Tale

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

The Handmaid's Tale

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

The Handmaid's Tale

I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.

The Handmaid's Tale

But remember that forgiveness, too, is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

The Handmaid's Tale

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

The Handmaid's Tale

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

The Handmaid's Tale

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

The Handmaid's Tale

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

The Handmaid's Tale

Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his dick?

The Handmaid's Tale

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

The Handmaid's Tale