2 Shopping Flashcards
Chapter 2:
“A return to traditional values. Waste not, want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?”
Chapter 2:
“Like other things now, thoughts must be rationed.”
Chapter 2:
“This is what we are now. The circumstances have been reduced; for those of us who still have circumstances.”
Chapter 2:
“Everything except the wings around my face is red: the colour of blood, which defines us.”
Chapter 2:
“not my room, I refuse to say my”
Chapter 2:
“the frown isn’t personal: it’s the red dress she disapproves of, and what it stands for.”
Chapter 2:
“The Marthas are not supposed to fraternise with us.”
Chapter 3:
“The tulips are red, a darker crimson towards the stem, as if they have been cut and are beginning to heal there.”
Chapter 3:
“Many of the Wives have such gardens, it’s something for them to order and maintain and care for.”
Chapter 3:
“They aren’t scarves for grown men but for children.”
Chapter 3:
“She doesn’t speak to me, unless she can’t avoid it. I am a reproach to her, and a necessity.”
Chapter 3:
“There’s always a black market, there’s always something that can be exchanged.”
Chapter 3:
“As for my husband, she said, he’s just that. My husband. I want that to be perfectly clear. Till death do us part. It’s final.”
“It’s one of the things we fought for”
Chapter 3:
“They can hit us, there’s Scriptual precedent. But not with any implement. Only with their hands.”
Chapter 3:
“The woman sitting in front of me was Serena Joy. or had been, once. So it was worse than I thought.”
Chapter 4:
“white picket gate”
Chapter 4:
“It’s black, of course, the colour of prestige or a hearse””
Chapter 4:
“Low status: he hasn’t been issued a woman, not even one.”
Chapter 4:
“Perhaps it was a test, to see what I would do. Perhaps he is an Eye.”
Chapter 4:
“‘Blessed be the fruit,’ she says to me, the accepted greeting among us. ‘May the Lord open,’ I answer, the accepted response”
Chapter 4:
“she has never said anything that was not strictly orthodox, but then, neither have I. She may be a real believer, a Handmaid in more than name. I can’t take the risk.”
Chapter 4:
“Last week they shot a woman […] They thought she was a man in disguise. There have been such incidents.”
Chapter 4:
“they are supposed to show respect, because of the nature of our service.”
Chapter 4:
“They think instead of doing their duty and of promotion to the Angels, and of being allowed possibly to marry”
Chapter 4:
“Then I find I’m not ashamed after all. I enjoy the power; power of a dog bone, passive but there.”
Chapter 5:
“The lawns are tidy; the facades are gracious”
Chapter 5:
“As in those pictures, those musuems, those model towns, there are no children.”
Chapter 5:
“This is the heart of Gilead, where the war cannot intrude except on television.”
Chapter 5:
“We would have a garden, swings for the children. We would have children.”
Chapter 5:
“There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the dats of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.”
Chapter 5:
“They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word undone […] They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.”
Chapter 5:
“She’s a flag on a hill-top, showing us what webcam still be done: we too can be saved”
