Quotes About The Handmaids Tale

#1. Freedom to isn't the same as freedom from."
-The Handmaids Tale

Margaret Atwood

#2. When you have understood the piece of the world you want to change, and aligned your will with the world as it actually is, then and only then can you begin to change it;

Steven Brust

#3. From somewhere in the blue vault of heaven overhead came the joyous trilling of a lark, from below the silken rustling of the tideless sea.

Rafael Sabatini

#4. Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul.

Rudolf Steiner

#5. There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.

Cheryl James

#6. Rules should always be bent, if not broken. It's the only way to have any fun.

Alyson Noel

#7. Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

Martin Luther

#8. I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.

Armand Deutsch

#9. While we too always seek other signs, other wonders, we do not realize that he is the real sign, God made flesh; he is the greatest miracle of the universe: all the love of God hidden in a human heart, in a human face.

Pope Benedict XVI

#10. I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.

Mitch Kapor

#11. It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

Eberhard Weber

#12. The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having ...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#13. Suppose I say summer, write the word "hummingbird," put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you.

Catherine McKenzie

#14. The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year.

Thomas Dreier

#15. A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.

James Russell Lowell

#16. (on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.

Barbara Kingsolver