The Handmaids Tale

• "They had electric cattle prods"
• "We learned to lip-read"
• "they've removed anything you could tie a rope to"
• "... the room - not my room, I refuse to say my" later... "I called it mine"
• "A sister, dipped in blood"
• Cora - "they're doing it for us all"
• Cora - "With the unwomen, and starve to death"
• "I am a reproach to her. A necessity." (Offred to SJ)
• SJ's past - "Growing Souls Gospel Hour"
• "Blessed be the fruit" "May the Lord open"
• travel in twos - "She is my spy, as I am hers"
• "I enjoy the power"
• Aunt Lydia - "Freedom to and freedom from ... now you are being given freedom from"
• The Japanese tourists "seem undressed. It has taken so little time to change our minds"
• Offred - "Yes, we are very happy"
• "Its only the more recent history that offends them"
• "Perhaps I've become used to them" (the bells)
• "like the mouths painted with thick brushes by kindergarten children"
• "I put a lot of effort into making such distinctions. I need to make them. I need to be very clear, in my own mind"
• "On the wall, there is "a priest"
• "Without a word she swivels, as if she's voice-activated"
• "Its French, he said. Help me"
• "The Econowives do not like us"
• SJ "doesn't make speeches anymore. She has become speechless"
• Aunt Lydia is described as "a dead rodent"
• "there are only women who are fruitful and women who are barren, that's the law"
• "Give me children, or else I die"
• "Small tattoo on my ankle"
• "I am a national resource"
• "What I must present is a made thing, not something born"
• "Her fault, her fault, her fault" "Crybaby. Crybaby. Crybaby"
• "The Bible is kept locked up"
• "Blessed are the meek. Blessed are the silent. I knew they made that up...but there was no way of checking"
• Aunt Lydia - "For our purposes your feet and your hands are not essential"
• Moira's "feet did not look like feet at all"
• "We are containers, its only the inside of our bodies that are important"
• "I want to steal something"
• Moira was now "a loose woman"
• The Wives "get sick a lot...it adds interest to their lives"
• Commander - "Butter. He laughed"

  "I could have slapped him"