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”
