Margaret Atwood

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.

From The Handmaid's Tale

Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

From The Handmaid's Tale

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, death is a slow experience.

From The Handmaid's Tale

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, but just felt in the heart.

From The Handmaid's Tale

When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

From The Handmaid's Tale

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

From The Handmaid's Tale

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

From The Handmaid's Tale

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

From The Handmaid's Tale

You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave.

From The Handmaid's Tale

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

From The Handmaid's Tale