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Handmaids Quotes

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

Mark Twain
Genius, Hunger, Handmaids
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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

Margaret Atwood
Change, Mean, Handmaids Tale
Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

Margaret Atwood
Irises, Clamor, Handmaids Tale
Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Margaret Atwood
Ignorance, Handmaids Tale, Handmaids
Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Vices, Flattery, Handmaids
De Amicitia, XXIV,

Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.

William Rounseville Alger
Retribution, Handmaids, Nemesis

Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

Margaret Atwood
Want, Waste, Handmaids Tale
Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Margaret Atwood
Talent, Handmaids Tale, Handmaids
Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

Margaret Atwood
Looks, Want, Handmaids Tale
Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Vices, Flattery, Handmaids

Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

Karl Kraus
Mother, Speech, Handmaids

Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

William Everson
Art, Healing, Handmaids
William Everson (1980). “Earth Poetry: Selected Essays & Interviews of William Everson, 1950/1977”

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

Margaret Atwood
Handmaids Tale
"The Handmaid's Tale". Book by Margaret Atwood, 1985.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

Margaret Atwood
Believe, I Believe, Handmaids Tale
Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.410, Random House

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

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

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

Margaret Atwood
Men, Strategy, Handmaids Tale
Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

we lived in the gaps between the stories

Margaret Atwood
Stories, Gaps, Handmaids Tale
Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Science and art are the handmaids of religion.

Francois Delsarte
Art, Science, Handmaids

Labor is the handmaid of religion.

Charles Henry Parkhurst
Handmaids, Labor

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