Offred's mother

• Back on earth, my mother is part of the crowd now, and I can’t see her anymore
• a man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women
• You’re just a backlash. Flash in the ban. History will absolve me
• She expected me to vindicate her life for her, and the choices she’d made
• I wanted from her a life more ceremonious
• A shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.
• I realized I’d be thinking of her as dead
• It is just passing the buck, as children do, to mothers.