The Handmaid's Tale

We get so comfortable with walls. It doesn’t even take that long. Wear the red dress, wear the wings, shut your mouth, be a good girl. Roll over and spread your legs. Yes, ma’am. May the Lord open.

Character: June Osborne

Only in suffering will we find grace.

Character: Aunt Lydia

Girls, there is more than one kind of freedom. There is freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now, you are being given freedom from. That is a gift from God. Do not underrate it.

Character: Aunt Lydia

No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be.

Character: June Osborne

Who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow. Not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Character: June Osborne

Wear the dress. Pull the strings.

Character: June Osborne