More quotes by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
"Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."
"Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered."
"Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you."
"One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?"