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Quote
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Character
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Chapter
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“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
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Several different characters
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(reoccurring) 9, 15, 24, 29,
35, 46
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“It isn’t running away they’re afraid of. We wouldn’t get far. It’s those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.”
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Offred
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2
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“Now we walk along the same street, in red pairs, and no man shouts obscenities at us, speaks to us, touches us. No one whistles.”
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Offred
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3
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"There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from.”
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Aunt Lydia
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3
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“We are fascinated, but also repelled. They seem undressed. It has taken so little time to change our minds, about things like this. . . Then I think: I used to dress like that. That was freedom.”
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Offred
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5
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“We used to talk about buying a house like one of these, an old big house, fixing it up. We would have a garden, swings for the Children. We would have children... Such freedom now seems almost weightless.”
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Offred
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5
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“I would like to steal something from this room. I would like to take some small thing, the scrolled ashtray... It would make me feel that I have power.”
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Offred
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14
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“Sanity is a valuable possession. I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.”
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Offred
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19
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“Moira had power now, she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.”
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Offred
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22
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“Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy. Already we were losing the taste for freedom, already we were finding these walls secure.”
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Offred
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22
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“One and one and one and one doesn’t equal four.
Each one remains unique.”
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Offred
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29
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“Yet there’s an enticement in this thing, it carries with it the childish allure of dressing up. And it would be so flaunting, such a sneer at the Aunts, so sinful, so free. Freedom, like everything else, is relative.”
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Offred
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36
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“And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.”
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Offred
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46
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