The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

I enjoy the power; power of a dog bone, passive but there.

There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from.

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

One and one and one and one doesn’t equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.