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• There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Freedom, Aunt, Anarchy

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

  Margaret Atwood

  Looks, Want, Determine

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ordinario, dijo tía Lydia, es a lo que estás acostumbrado. Puede que esto no te parezca ordinario ahora, pero después de un tiempo lo será. Se convertirá en ordinario.

  Margaret Atwood

  Aunt, May, Ordinary

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No dejes que los bastardos te machaquen.

  Margaret Atwood

  Graduation, Latin, Cheer Up

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ignorar no es lo mismo que ignorar, hay que trabajárselo.

  Margaret Atwood

  Ignorance, Handmaids

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pensamiento, Gente, Manera

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• Illegitimis non carborundum.
  Lat., No dejes que los bastardos te machaquen.

  Joseph Stilwell

  Latin, Persistence, Grind

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• Mejor nunca significa mejor para todos... Siempre significa peor, para algunos.

  Margaret Atwood

  Change, Mean, Handmaids

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lo que se silencia clamará por ser oído, aunque en silencio.

  Margaret Atwood

  Irises, Clamor, Bleeding Heart

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Éramos los que no aparecíamos en los periódicos. Vivíamos en los espacios en blanco de los márgenes de la prensa. Eso nos daba más libertad. Vivíamos en los huecos entre las historias.

  Margaret Atwood

  Space, White, People

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jan 20, 2015

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• Y a veces sucedió, durante un tiempo. Ese tipo de amor va y viene y es difícil de recordar después, como el dolor. Un día mirarías a ese hombre y pensarías: te amé, y el tiempo sería pasado, y te llenarías de una sensación de asombro, porque fue algo tan asombroso, precario y tonto; y también sabrías por qué tus amigos han sido evasivos al respecto, en su momento.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Pain, Past

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Un hombre es sólo la estrategia de una mujer para hacer otras mujeres.

  Margaret Atwood

  Men, Strategy

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

  Margaret Atwood

  Talent, Handmaids

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.

  Margaret Atwood

  Morning, Night, Thinking

  Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.305, Random House

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• Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or Don't be. I suppose you could say that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Air, Might, Grind

  Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.447, Random House

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• By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, Stories, Goes On

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Nov 19, 2016

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• We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

  Margaret Atwood

  Aunt, Choices, Dying

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.

  Margaret Atwood

  Names, Want, Way

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, I Believe

  Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.410, Random House

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• The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil

  Margaret Atwood

  Betrayal, Evil, Doubt

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

  Margaret Atwood

  "The Handmaid's Tale". Book by Margaret Atwood, 1985.

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• Qué furiosa debe estar, ahora que le han tomado la palabra.

  Margaret Atwood

  Taken, Handmaids, Furious

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

  Margaret Atwood

  Ignorant, Way, Shame

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• vivíamos en los huecos entre las historias

  Margaret Atwood

  Stories, Gaps, Handmaids

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.

  Margaret Atwood

  Self, Waiting, Speech

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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