quotes (novel) Flashcards
unwomen (L)
“He could fake the tests, report me for cancer, for infertility, have me shipped off to the Colonies, with the Unwomen”
unbaby (L)
“What will Ofwarren give birth to? A baby as we all hope? Or something else, an Unbaby, with a pinhead or a snout like a dogs, or two bodies, or a hole in its heart or no arms, or webbed hands and feet?”
praise be (L) + (T)
“Praise be” “Which i receive with joy” “may the lord open”
“The truth is that she is my spy as i am hers”
ofglen (L)
“her name is Ofglen, and that’s about all i know about her”
martha (L)
“Don’t call me ma’am, she said irritably, you’re not a Martha”
prayvaganza (L) + (T)
“we’re off to the Prayvaganza to demonstrate how obedient and pious we are”
bodies
“now we turn our backs on the church and there is the thing we’ve in truth come to see: The Wall”
milk and honey (T)
“Milk and Honey”