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  • 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.

    Freedom   Aunt   Anarchy  
    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Don't let the bastards grind you down.

    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws -- these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They may make its task smooth and grateful; they may associate themselves with its victories, or they may prepare its way.

  • I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what’s to come, so I think that’s really interesting.

    "Ben Gibbard’s Seventh-Album Stretch". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 13, 2011.
  • I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.

    Self   Waiting   Speech  
    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

    Truth   Humility   Joy  
    Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.108
  • For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

    Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.7, Courier Corporation
  • Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

    Women   Self   Niceness  
    William Shakespeare (1830). “The Beauties of Shakespeare, Selected from the Most Correct Editions of His Works: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.190
  • Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

    Nature   Advice   Doe  
  • All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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

    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Hunger is the handmaid of genius

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.141, Courier Corporation
  • By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

    Art   Nature   Tails  
    'Annus Mirabilis' (1667) st. 155
  • Labor is the handmaid of religion.

  • Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

    Anger   Mind   Mistress  
  • The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil

    Betrayal   Evil   Doubt  
    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Aunt   May   Ordinary  
    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

    Enemy   Atheism   Church  
  • Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

    De Amicitia, XXIV,
  • You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

    Views   Pyramids   People  
  • The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

    Book   Puritan   Harvard  
  • Science and art are the handmaids of religion.

    Art   Science   Handmaids  
  • Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

    Calvin Coolidge (1925). “America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses”
  • And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends have been evasive about it, at the time.

    Love   Pain   Past  
    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

  • Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.

    Sweet   Art   Pain  
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