The Handmaid's Tale Quotes (Season 2)

For some people, their work is their passion, if you’re truly blessed.

What are we going to do? We can’t explain this away. We can’t even report it. To have a pregnant Handmaid run away once is bad enough, but twice? They’ll say we’re part of the Resistance![to Fred]

The mouth of a woman is a deep pit. He that falls therein will suffer. You are the misery of all man. All of you.[to Offred]

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.

Girls, there is more than one kind of freedom. There is freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now, you are being given freedom from. That is a gift from God. Do not underrate it.

We get so comfortable with walls. It doesn’t even take that long. Wear the red dress, wear the wings, shut your mouth, be a good girl. Roll over and spread your legs. Yes, ma’am. May the Lord open.

Stay in Gilead long enough and it starts to eat you from the inside out. That’s one of the things they do. They force you to kill, within yourself.

I’m sorry there is so much pain in this story. I’m sorry it’s in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there’s nothing I can do to change it. I’ve tried to put some of the good things in as well.[to her baby]

I shouldn’t have expected you to understand. You have no idea what it is like to have a child of your own flesh and blood. And you never will.[to Fred]

There’s not a perfect marriage. It’s the same guy every night. Even when you’re sick of each other. Even when he can never seem to figure out how to load the f***ing dishwasher. Do you know why? Because he’s an infant.

Someone once said, “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” We should have known better. I thought there were still secret places, hidden in the cracks and crevices of this world. Places we could make beautiful, peaceful, quiet, safe. Or at least bearable.

Raise your daughter to be a feminist. She spends all her time waiting to be rescued by men.