The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

But remember that forgiveness too is a power.

To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

You can't stick your hand through a glass window without getting cut, is what she said about it. Fucking pigs.