The Handmaid's Tale

I know I'm a decade and a half behind. I've always wanted to read this book, but never got around to it. Must excellent, I must say. I marked just a few passages...

"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."
Personally, I like "freedom to".

"I stop walking. Ofglen stops beside me and I know that she too cannot take her eyes off these (Japanese tourist) women. We are fascinated, but also repelled. They seem undressed. It has taken so little time to change our minds about things like this."
Just a little statement about how quickly those in control can change our minds about things.

"Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."

"In reduced circumstances you have to believe all kinds of things."

"The first egg is white. I move the eggcup a little, so it's now in the watery sunlight that comes through the window and falls, brightening, waning, brightening again, on the tray. The shell of the egg is smooth, but also grained; small pebbles of calcium are defined by the sunlight, like craters on the moon. It's a barren landscape, yet perfect; it's the sort of desert the saints went into, so their minds would not be distracted by profusion. I think that this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside. The egg is glowing now, as if it had an energy of it's own. To look at the egg gives me intense pleasure... The minimalist life. Pleasure is an egg. Blessings that can be counted on the fingers of one hand. But possibly this is how I am expected to react. If I have an egg, what more could I want? In reduced circumstances the desire to live attaches itself to strange objects."

That's all I'm going to share. I have some other books by her and I can't wait to read them.