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Moira is gay

“Does Luke hope?”

“Nobody dies from lack of sex, they die from the lack of love. There nobody that I love, all the people I love or could love are dead or elsewhere”

The red center is called the red center cuz there’s a Lot of Red. Offred has hope that some day; she and others will get out and be touched loved and desire

A monologue about God to Adam and God to Women

“My name isn’t offred. I have another name but nobdoy uses it now. It’s forbidden. I tell myself it doesn’t your name is like a telephone. Useful to others”

“I use to think of my Body as an instrument of pleasure or a means of transportion”

After Janine tells her stories. Aunt Helen says it’s her fault, she led them on and God allowed it to teach her a lesson.
“It was my fault, my own. I led them on; I deserve the pain”-Janine says after being shamed
WTF…

At 14, Janine was gang-raped and aborted the baby but in offreds words. It’s Janine it’s more or less true