104 result(s) for The Handmaid’s Tale Quotes.
"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us a moment of timelessness."
"Nothing changes instantaneously: In a gradually heating bathtub, death is a slow horror."
"When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was like that."
"Freedom to and freedom from."
"Creating a better, more equal world is everyone's job."
"There is nothing more dangerous than a bored woman."
"Nothing is simple anymore. Not even the truth."
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"You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave."
"I would like to be a writer, and I’d like to do things that matter."
"We must be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid."
"The body is not an apology."
"It’s not what we want. It’s what we need."
"We are the stories we tell ourselves."
"You don’t need a specific reason to make a change, you just need to feel compelled to do so."
"Survival is not an academic skill."
"Reality demands to be told."
"The only way to get rid of the fear is to make the brave decision to face it."
"There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives."
"But you can't expect to be the same person who wrote that thing”, "
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, but must be felt with the heart."
"Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, death is a slow afterthought."
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"I remember the smell of the air in the house, filled with the scent of the wood burning in the fireplace."
"You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs."
"If I had a heart, I would care more."
"There is no such thing as a lone wolf; we are all connected."
"It’s not the most popular job in the world, but somebody has to do it."
"We were the people who were not in the papers—who were the people who didn't exist."
"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."
"The best way to make a thing pretty is to destroy its value."
"When we think of the future, we see it as unchangeable. That doesn’t mean we should."
"No one is completely uninteresting. There’s someone out there who would listen."
"Nothing is more dangerous than a wounded animal."
"The law is not a self-solving concept; it needs to be redefined continuously."
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
"The future is not a gift, it is an achievement."
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"The way forward is to be truthful with oneself."
"We are still living in a patriarchal world."
"Freedom, like the dark, is a state of mind."
"Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, death is a slow, slippery process."
"The most important thing is that you can tell a story."
"Atwood evokes a world of limits, yet the imagination reaches well beyond the walls."
"It’s a beautiful day, isn’t it? I’m glad to be free, and I’m glad you are too."
"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom."
"If it’s a choice, then choose one."
"You can't help but see the difference between fantasy and reality."
"There is no such thing as a free choice. Choices are influenced by regimes, values, beliefs, and norms."
"This is what we can do to combat it: you can write... You can write the story that changed everything."
"The future is a world of our own making, for better or worse."
"In the world of this book, God isn’t a man, nor is he a woman. He simply is."
"The word 'women' rings with longing but means nothing; it is just a collection of letters."
"I’m trying to generate a new version of reality; the synthesis of this darkness is what I wish to avoid."
"The truth is that life is like a maze, and everyone has to find the exit on their own."
"Once we have surrendered, we will never escape."
"The past is always in your head, and can be just as affecting as the present."
"There are different kinds of freedom; there's the freedom of the mind, of the body, and of the spirit."
"The choices we make dictate the lives we lead."
"Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, death is likely to be the result."
"The past is a great darkness and it has a lot of secrets."
"I'm always afraid of the things that I don't know."
"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
"The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed."
"The world has been very good to you, and you want to love it."
"A word after a word after a word is power."
"Women's history is women's right, and the future of women matters."
"We dream of the future, but we live in the past."
"It’s the choices we make that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
"To be woman is to know the past and create the future."
"You are what you choose to become."
"A society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members."
"We are containers, and the more we know, the more we can carry."
"The heart is a muscle, and it can break."
"To write is to be judged, and there is no escaping that."
"It is in the interest of those in power to keep people ignorant."
"We are being eaten alive by our own stories."
"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum."
"Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some."
"Freedom, like everything else, is relative."
"Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."
"A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze."
"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories."
"There is nothing that’s more important than your own happiness."
"You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave."
"The fate of the women in this society is a consequence of their choices."
"What’s the point of the story if it doesn’t have a point?"
"When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that."
"The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know."
"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print."
"Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, death is a slow and gradual process."
"The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time."
"To be a woman in this world is to be both the true and the false."
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
"Atwood's Gilead is a projection of our fears, it’s a warning more than a prediction."
"In the desert there is no sign that says, 'Thou shalt not eat stones.'"
"All of the love you've ever given contributes to who you are."
"The world is not made of atoms; it's made of stories."
"Nothing is so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth."
"There's no such thing as an innocent bystander."
"Everything has a structure; the hard part is knowing what structure it has."
"We thought we were the ones who had the water. But maybe the water had us."
"Women are not just vessels. They have a right to be whole, to be free, to choose."
"In the past, people were more aware; they had to be. And they suffered accordingly."
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