No Simple Answers

• Offred's mother may be a feminist, but it's more complex than that because of this she is the good.
• Offred doesn't appreciate all of her activities, stating that she 'didn't want to live my life on her terms' at the end of chapter 20.
• In chapter 28, Offred states that she 'wanted a life more ceremonious, less subject to makeshift and encampment'.
• Moira, works for a women's collective that puts out books on birth control and rape, but there isn't much demand for those things as there used to be.
• Luke and Offred have moved beyond the need of active feminism, with Luke seeing himself as egalitarian and often teasing Offred mother.
• Luke 'pretends to be macho' and states that 'women are incapable of abstract thought'.
• Once Offred's job and bank account are taken away, she feels immediately that their relationship has changed.
• Offred sneered at Moira for thinking she could 'create utopia by shutting herself in a woman only enclave', as 'men were not just going to go away'.
• After Jezebels in chapter 39, Moira's suspicions about a male dominated society are well founded.