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"This is a reconstruction."
-Offred

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"Think of it as being in the army, said Aunt Lydia."
-Aunt Lydia

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"In the handmaid's tale the commanders mostly wear elegant, black suits these black suits represent the fear and the authority. It also represents the high position of the commanders in the regime of Gilead, since black represents elegance and high status. It can also represent the evilness of the commanders."

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"The outfits that the wives wear are more flattering and fitted than those worn by the handmaid's. These outfits are blue, which are extremely contradicting and sarcastic/ironic, since blue is the color of the virgin Mary which represents fertility and pureness, qualities the wives do not posses. Blue also is a royal color, symbolizing the high status of the wives. But it is also seen as a cold color, which represents the attitude of the wives towards the handmaid's."

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"I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will . . . Now the flesh arranges itself differently. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping."
-Offred

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

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"Love, said Aunt Lydia with distaste. Don't let me catch you at it. No mooning and June-ing around here, girls. Wagging her finger at us. Love is not the point."
-Aunt Lydia

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"But look at the stats, my dear. Was it really worth it, falling in love? Arranged marriages have always worked out just as well, if not better."
- The Commander

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"You are a transitional generation, said Aunt Lydia. It is hardest for you. We know the sacrifices you are being expected to make. It is hard when men revile in you. For the ones who come after you, it will be easier. They will accept their duties with willing hearts.
She did not say: Because they will have no memories, of any other way.
She said: Because they won't want things they can't have."

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"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 Lydia

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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."

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"Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse for someone."
- The Commander

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"We were a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice."
-Aunt Lydia

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"The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman's life, to her well-being and dignity. When the government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a full adult human responsible for her own choices."
- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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"Red symbolizes fertility, the handmaid's main asset, the color suggests the blood of the menstrual cycle and childbirth. Red also represents passion, even though the handmaids are not supposed to be passionate."