Luci’s Reviews > The Handmaid's Tale > Status Update

no mother is ever, completely, a child idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do badly by one another, we did it as well as most.

I wish you were here, so I could tell her I finally know this.

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.

I avoid looking down at my body, not so much because it's shameful or immodest, but because I don't want to see it. I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

no woman in her right mind, these days, would seek to prevent a birth, should she be so lucky as to conceive.

"his skin is pale and looks on wholesomely tender, like the skin under a scab."