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  1. Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale

    Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word 'undone'. These women could not be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose.
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  2. Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale

    What would you like to read tonight?" he says. This too has become routine. So far I've been through a Mademoiselle magazine, an old Esquire from the eighties, a Ms., a magazine I can remember vaguely as having been around my mother's various apartments while I was growing up, and a Reader's Digest. He even has novels. I've read a Raymond Chandler, and right now I'm halfway through Hard Times, by Charles Dickens. On these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before the next long starvation. If it were eating it would be the gluttony of the famished; if it were sex it would be a swift furtive stand-up in an alley somewhere.
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  3. Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale

    Vosotros los jóvenes no sabéis apreciar las cosas, proseguía. No sabéis lo que hemos tenido que pasar para lograr que estéis donde estáis. Míralo, es él quien pela las zanahorias. ¿Sabéis cuántas vidas de mujeres, cuántos cuerpos de mujeres han tenido que arrollar los tanques para llegar a esta situación? La cocina es mi pasatiempo predilecto, decía Luke. Disfruto cocinando. Un pasatiempo muy original, replicaba mi madre. No tienes por qué darme explicaciones. En otros tiempos no te habrían permitido tener semejante pasatiempo, te habrían llamado marica. Vamos, madre, le decía yo. No discutamos por tonterías. Tonterías, repetía amargamente. Las llamas tonterías. Veo que no entiendes. No entiendes nada de lo que estoy diciendo.
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  4. Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale

    Its racist policies, for instance, were firmly rooted in the pre-Gilead period, and racist fears provided some of the emotional fuel that allowed the Gilead takeover to succeed as well as it did.
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  5. Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale

    This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.
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  6. Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale

    I still have it in me to feel sorry for him. Moira is right, I am a wimp.
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  7. Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale

    That is a reconstruction, too.
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  8. Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale

    Red all over the cupboard, mirth rhymes with birth, oh to die of laughter.
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  9. Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale

    There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with, as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. None
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  10. Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale

    Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it.
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  11. Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale

    I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed.
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  12. Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale

    Pen Is Envy, Aunt Lydia would say, quoting another Center motto, warning us away from such objects. And they were right, it is envy. Just holding it is envy. I envy the Commander his pen. It's one more thing I would like to steal. The
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