Handmaids Quotes
19 quotes by 18 authors
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The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the…
— Margaret Atwood
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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to…
— Margaret Atwood
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Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be…
— William Buckland
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Science and art are the handmaids of religion.
— Francois Delsarte
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Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime,…
— James A. Garfield
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I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with…
— Karl Pearson
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
— Calvin Coolidge
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The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
— Thomas Bulfinch
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Hunger is the handmaid of genius
— Mark Twain
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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not…
— Andre Malraux
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I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.
— Horace Mann
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
— James Russell Lowell
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I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so…
— Conor Oberst
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His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.
— George R. R. Martin
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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back…
— George William Curtis
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The past has always been the handmaid of authority.
— J. H. Plumb
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A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.
— Thomas Brooks
Who Wrote These Handmaids Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 19 Handmaids Quotes as follows: