The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

by Margaret Atwood

What my father was doing in there was said to be very important—the important things that men did, too important for females to meddle with because they had smaller brains that were incapable of thinking large thoughts,

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one most travelled by. It was littered with corpses, as such roads are.

You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

The opposition is led by the educated, so the educated are the first to be eliminated.