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Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale

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Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 18.

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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

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Surfacing

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Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland and Stewart, 1972, ch. 27.

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

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Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 6.

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But 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.

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Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 21.

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Don't let the bastards grind you down.

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Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 29.

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But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

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Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 33.

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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive but there's less of you.

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Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland and Stewart, 1972, ch. 5.

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What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face.

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Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 24.

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