The Handmaid's Tale
Wednesdays on HuluThe Handmaid's Tale Season 1 Quotes
Offred: Janine, you cannot bite people.
Janine: Can I tell you a secret? I can do anything I want. I had a baby. A good one. I had a good one! So they don't care. I can't do anything I want. I can have ice cream. It's only vanilla, but I can have it. Do you want some?
Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the Consitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
Offred
Ofglen: Be careful, a lot of the drivers work for the Eyes.
Offred: He said I shouldn't trust you. He said you were dangerous.
Ofglen: Really? I mean, he's right. Trusting anyone's dangerous. Especially a carpet-munching gender traitor.
June: Where are the babies?
Nurse: Oh, we had a tough night. Two went in the intensive care unit and the others are with God.
Someone is watching here. Someone is always watching. Nothing can change. It all has to look the same because I intend to survive - for her. Her name is Hannah. My husband was Luke. My name is June.
Offred
There's an Eye in your house. Be careful!
Ofglen
The bath is required before the Ceremony. I am to make myself clean. Washed and brushed like a prized pig.
Offred
Offred: Moira? What'd they do to her?
Moira: If my right eye offends thee, pluck it out. We're breeding stock. You don't need eyes for that.
Girls? I know this must feel so strange, but ordinary is just what you're used to. This may not be ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. This will become ordinary.
Aunt Lydia
