brainwashing/oppression

• Where I am is not a prison but a privilege, as aunt lydia said, who was in love with either/or
• The white wings too are prescribed issue; they are to keep us from seeing but also from being seen
• Not my room, I refuse to say my
• She wanted me to feel that I could not come into the house unless she said so. There is push and shove, these days over such toeholds.
• some of you will fall on dry ground or thorns. Some of you are shallow rooted
• A shape, red with white wings around the face, a shape like mine, a nondescript woman in red carrying a basket.
• If they think of a kiss they must immediately think of the floodlights going on, the rifle shots
• upright men, darkly clothed and unsmiling. Our ancestors. Admission is free
• The bodies hanging on the Wall are time travellers, anachronisms
• It intersects me so that the doctor will never see my face. he deals with torso only
• My body seems outdated
• Blessed are the meek. She didn’t go on to say anything about inheriting the earth
• fluttering like the wings of dead birds
• Each month I watch for blood, fearfully, for when it comes it means failure. I have failed once again to fulfill the expectations of others which have become my own.
• He [the tv presenter] tells us what we long to believe
• Farm, in theory
• From each, says the slogan, according to her ability; to each according to his needs
• maybe it’s about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it
• Men at the top always have mistresses, why should it be different now?
• A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays in the maze
• I started doing more housework, more baking. I tried not to cry at mealtimes
• This rope segregates us, marks us off, keeps the others from contamination by us, makes for us a corral or pen
• Christ, said Moira, beside me. Don’t swear, said Alma
• It’s a mistake to hang back to obviously in a group like this; it stamps you as lukewarm, lacking in zeal.
• He has become an it
• allow me to say that in my opinion we must be cautious about passing moral judgement upon the Gileadeans
• our job is not to censure but to understand
• the best and most cost-effective way to control women for reproductive and other purposes was through women themselves
• when power is scarce, a little of it is tempting