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“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
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“But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
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