Nitzan

“September first will be labour day, they still have that. Though it didn't used to have anything to do with mothers.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Will Serena Joy talk about me like that, if I do as she wants? Agreed to it right away, really she didn’t care, anything with two legs and a good you-know-what was fine with her. They aren’t squeamish, they don’t have the same feelings we do. And the rest of them leaning forward in their chairs, My dear, all horror and prurience. How could she? Where? When?”
― Margaret Atwood

“You'd have to watch your weight, that's for sure,' he says. 'They're strict about that. Gain ten pounds and they put you in Solitary.' Is he joking? Most likely, but I don't want to know.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“So there it was, out in the open: his wife didn't understand him.
That's what I was there for then. The same old thing. It was too banal to be true.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale