
The Handmaid's Tale

You can’t help what you feel, Moira once said, but you can help how you behave.
Margaret Atwood • 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 thi
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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.
Margaret Atwood • The Handmaid's Tale
nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from.
Margaret Atwood • The Handmaid's Tale
We lived in the gaps between the stories.