Quotes on Handmaids Tale

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

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. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

we lived in the gaps between the stories

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

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

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.