Handmaid S Tale Quotes

“I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“​Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word 'undone'. These women could not be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“God is love,' they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There is something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Tunnen olevani kuin hattaranekku: sokeria ja ilmaa. Jos minua puristaa niin minusta tulee pieni, etovaa kosteutta tihkuva punertava mytty.”
― Margaret Atwood

“La normalità, diceva Zia Lydia, significa ciò cui si è abituati. Se qualcosa potrà non sembrarvi normale al momento, dopo un po' di tempo lo sarà. Diventerà normale."
Margaret Atwood, Il racconto dell'ancella, traduzione di Camillo Pennati”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I never made dough women, because after they were baked I would eat them, and that made me feel I had a secret power over men.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Poderias até oferecer-lhes um Céu. Precisamos de Ti para isso. O Inferno podemos fazer nós mesmos.”
― Margaret Atwood