Handmaid Quotes Flashcards
“They’ve removed anything you could tie a rope to”
Handmaids are suicidal
“The colour of blood, which defines us”
Menstruation and fertility “walking wombs”
“He hasn’t been issued a woman yet”
Women are commodities
“She is my spy as I am her’s”
Destruction of trust between people
“The young people are the most dangerous, the most fanatical”
Like 84
“Freedom yo and freedom from”
Distorted notions of freedom like 84
“Even the names of shops were too much temptation for us”
Women forbidden from reading
“Sometimes they are there, sometimes not”
Scarcity
84
“It’s hard to imagine now, having a friend”
“One did not have friends nowadays” - 84
Destruction of social ties
“Evidence from a single woman is no longer admissible”
Custom borrowed directly from Islamic Sharia Law
“What I feel towards them is blankness”
Desensitised like 84 cinema audience
“I know I lost time”
Unreliable narrator
“Gender treachery”
Persecution of homosexuality; illegal in UK till 67
“We lived by ignoring them”
Complacency like proles
“The small tattoo on my ankle”
Branded like Jews under Hitler
