Handmaids tale sayings

"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood is a dystopian novel that has several memorable sayings and phrases. Here are a few of them:

1. "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum" - Latin for "Don't let the bastards grind you down."

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

3. "Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."

4. "Freedom, like everything else, is relative."

5. "A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze."

6. "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."

7. "There is more than one kind of freedom... Freedom to and freedom from."

8. "When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that."

9. "Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it."

10. "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."

These sayings reflect the themes of oppression, resistance, and the struggle for freedom that are central to the novel.

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