Handmaids Tale Quotations

I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

we lived in the gaps between the stories

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

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

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

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

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

Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

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

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

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