8 Margaret Atwood Quotes
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------=_Part_1382516_1263155378.1524781699130 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 8 Margaret Atwood Quotes for When the Bastards Grind You Down The accomplished author reflects on dystopia, gender, and the eternal possi= bility of giraffes. =C2=A0 25 Apr 2018by=C2=A0Aliza PolkesNow that=C2=A0The Handmaid=E2=80=99s Tale=C2= =A0Season 2 has premiered on Hulu, we've got Margaret Atwood on the brain. = The prolific Canadian author=E2=80=94who identifies as a writer of speculat= ive fiction,=C2=A0rather than sci-fi=E2=80=94excites and often scares us wi= th her dystopian worlds, some of which feel eerily prophetic. Here are eigh= t Atwood quotes that inspire and move us.=C2=A0=E2=80=9CIf I waited for per= fection =E2=80=A6 I would never write a word.=E2=80=9D =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0Th= e=C2=A0International Business Times=C2=A0included this on a list of =E2=80= =9C15 Quotes About Writing A Book from Famous Authors To Inspire You=E2=80= =9D during National Novel Writing Month November 2016. Some other quotes on= the list: =E2=80=9CIf there=E2=80=99s a book that you want to read, but it= hasn=E2=80=99t been written yet, then you must write it,=E2=80=9D from Ton= i Morrison, and =E2=80=9CGo spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence= and finish your @#$%ng novel,=E2=80=9D from John Green. See the full list= =C2=A0here. =C2=A0=C2=A0 =E2=80=9CAfter everything that's happened, how can the world still be so be= autiful? Because it is.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=94Oryx and Crake=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0= =C2=A0Margaret Atwood at Canada's Word in the Street festival to promote he= r 2009 book The Year of the Flood.Photo Credit:=C2=A0Peter Pelisek/Flickr (= CC)This quote comes from Atwood's dystopian novel=C2=A0Oryx and Crake, the = first book in a trilogy set in a post-apocalyptic world. It refers to the t= enderness that the character Snowman feels for the natural world, even afte= r the apocalypse. =C2=A0The novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize = for fiction in 2003.=C2=A0Oryx and Crake=C2=A0was followed by=C2=A0The Year= of the Flood=C2=A0in 2009, and=C2=A0MaddAddam=C2=A0in 2013. =C2=A0=C2=A0 =E2=80=9CIgnoring isn=E2=80=99t the same as ignorance: you have to work at = it.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=94The Handmaid's Tale =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0Elisabeth Moss = as Offred in Hulu's=C2=A0The Handmaid's Tale.Photo Credit:=C2=A0HuluThe pas= sivity of =E2=80=9Cignorance=E2=80=9D versus the activity of =E2=80=9Cignor= ing=E2=80=9D is highlighted in this passage from=C2=A0The Handmaid=E2=80=99= s Tale. Protagonist Offred reflects that the women living in the dystopian = Republic of Gilead=C2=A0choose=C2=A0to ignore the reality of their miserabl= e lives. They=C2=A0choose=C2=A0passivity, they=C2=A0choose=C2=A0not to rebe= l, rather than to risk what might happen if they fought against their circu= mstances. =C2=A0=C2=A0RELATED:=C2=A09 Great Quotes from Sci-Fi Legend Samue= l Delany=E2=80=9CWhen things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can c= ave in completely.=E2=80=9DThis is from a question and answer with Atwood i= n the hardcover edition of=C2=A0Oryx and Crake. Atwood is asked about the = =E2=80=9Cwordplays=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cmoments of deadpan humor=E2=80=9D = in her otherwise very serious novel. The above quote is part of her answer;= read her full response=C2=A0here. =E2=80=9CMen are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid tha= t men will kill them.=E2=80=9D =C2=A0Alexis Bledel as Ofglen in=C2=A0The Ha= ndmaid's Tale.Photo Credit:=C2=A0HuluThis=C2=A0Handmaid=C2=A0quote seems li= ke it could be the premise of the book=E2=80=94as well as the root cause of= many issues relating to gender today. It's a depressing fact, to be sure, = but we're grateful that Atwood's literary masterpieces continue to speak th= is truth, and show women persevering in the face of overwhelming danger.=C2= =A0 =E2=80=9CA word after a word after a word is power.=E2=80=9DThis comes from= a verse in Atwood=E2=80=99s poem, =E2=80=9CSpelling,=E2=80=9D in which she= reflects on the difficulties women have historically experienced in reconc= iling the relationship between =E2=80=9Cmother=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cwriter= .=E2=80=9D The poem then moves on to discuss how women have had their child= bearing rights denied, controlled, and otherwise manipulated throughout his= tory. Read the full poem=C2=A0here=C2=A0. =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0RELATED:= =C2=A0Books Like=C2=A0The Handmaid's Tale=C2=A0=E2=80=9C[Humans] have hope = built in. If our ancestors had not had that component, they would not have = bothered getting up in the morning. You are always going to have hope that = today there will be a giraffe, where yesterday there wasn=E2=80=99t one.=E2= =80=9DAtwood in 2010.Photo Credit:=C2=A0Mark Hill/Flickr (CC)Atwood made th= is observation during a discussion with=C2=A0The New Yorker. She was addres= sing her decision to contribute her manuscript=C2=A0Scribbler Moon=C2=A0to = the=C2=A0Future Library, a Norwegian project compiling a sort of literary t= ime capsule=E2=80=94the books involved in the project won't be read until 2= 114. Asked about the apparent paradox of writing speculative fiction about = imminent apocalypse, while at the same time contributing to a project based= on the assumption that our species will be extant=E2=80=94and reading!=E2= =80=94in 2114, Atwood said she believes hope is an essential part of life. = That belief is reflected in even the bleakest of her dystopian novels.=C2= =A0=E2=80=9CNolite te bastardes carborundorum.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=94The Handma= id=E2=80=99s Tale=C2=A0=C2=A0 Samira Wiley as Moira in=C2=A0The Handmaid's Tale.Photo Credit:=C2=A0HuluTh= is is quintessential Atwood, a jokey yet utterly profound=E2=80=93given the= context=E2=80=93Latin phrase that translates as ''don't let the bastards g= rind you down." Protagonist Offred finds the phrase carved into the floor o= f her closet, presumably by the woman who lived there before she did. The C= ommander translates it for Offred during one of their illicit meetings.=C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ------=_Part_1382516_1263155378.1524781699130 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><head></head><body><div style=3D"color:#000; background-color:#fff; f= ont-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font= -size:13px"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; backface-v= isibility: hidden; padding: 0px; max-width: 745px; font-family: pt-sans, sa= ns-serif; font-size: 16px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134368"><= div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 50px 0px 0px; backface-visibility= : hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134369"><h1 = style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; backf= ace-visibility: hidden; font-size: 54px; font-family: rogue-sans, sans-seri= f; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height:= 56px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134370"><span style=3D"box-si= zing: inherit; 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margin: 0px; backface-visibi= lity: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134387">= <div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; backface-visibilit= y: hidden; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: table-cell;" id=3D"yui_3_16_= 0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134388">25 Apr 2018</div><div style=3D"box-sizing: i= nherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px; di= splay: table-cell;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134389">by <= span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden= ;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134390"><a href=3D"https://theport= alist.com/author/Aliza%20Polkes" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; backface-vis= ibility: hidden; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(60, 125, 154); text-decor= ation-line: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0= px; border-bottom: 1px solid;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134391= ">Aliza Polkes</a></span></div></div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inheri= t; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px 0.9375rem; width:= 633.188px; float: left; position: relative;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15246= 99053879_134392"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 60px; b= ackface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15246990= 53879_134393"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; backf= ace-visibility: hidden; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-rendering:= optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15246= 99053879_134394">Now that <em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0p= x; backface-visibility: hidden; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym1= 9_1_1524699053879_134395">The Handmaid=E2=80=99s Tale</em> Season 2 ha= s premiered on Hulu, we've got Margaret Atwood on the brain. The prolific C= anadian author=E2=80=94who identifies as a writer of speculative fiction,&n= bsp;<a href=3D"https://www.wired.com/2013/09/geeks-guide-margaret-atwood/" = target=3D"_blank" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; backface-visibility: hidden= ; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(46, 95, 117); text-decoration-line: none= ; cursor: pointer; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; border-botto= m: 1px solid;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134396">rather than sc= i-fi</a>=E2=80=94excites and often scares us with her dystopian worlds, som= e of which feel eerily prophetic. Here are eight Atwood quotes that inspire= and move us. </div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0= px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_152= 4699053879_134397"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; = backface-visibility: hidden; font-size: 30px; line-height: 32px; text-rende= ring: optimizeLegibility; font-family: rogue-sans, sans-serif; font-weight:= 700;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134398">=E2=80=9CIf I waited f= or perfection =E2=80=A6 I would never write a word.=E2=80=9D &n= bsp;</div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 60px; ba= ckface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_152469905= 3879_134399"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; backfac= e-visibility: hidden; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-rendering: o= ptimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699= 053879_134400">The <em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; back= face-visibility: hidden; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_152= 4699053879_134401">International Business Times</em> included this on = a list of =E2=80=9C15 Quotes About Writing A Book from Famous Authors To In= spire You=E2=80=9D during National Novel Writing Month November 2016. Some = other quotes on the list: =E2=80=9CIf there=E2=80=99s a book that you want = to read, but it hasn=E2=80=99t been written yet, then you must write it,=E2= =80=9D from Toni Morrison, and =E2=80=9CGo spit in the face of our inevitab= le obsolescence and finish your @#$%ng novel,=E2=80=9D from John Green. See= the full list <a href=3D"http://www.ibtimes.com/national-novel-writin= g-month-2016-15-quotes-about-writing-book-famous-authors-inspire-2440118" s= tyle=3D"box-sizing: inherit; backface-visibility: hidden; line-height: inhe= rit; color: rgb(46, 95, 117); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; = outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid;" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134402">here</a>. </div><di= v style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; backface-visibility: hi= dden; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibilit= y; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134403"><= br></div></div><div data-google-query-id=3D"CK_0vub92NoCFUXrZAod5DgH6Q" sty= le=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; paddin= g: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: center;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879= _134422"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibilit= y: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699= 053879_134423"></div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; = backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699= 053879_134424"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; back= face-visibility: hidden; font-size: 30px; line-height: 32px; text-rendering= : optimizeLegibility; font-family: rogue-sans, sans-serif; font-weight: 700= ;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134425">=E2=80=9CAfter everything = that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.=E2= =80=9D =E2=80=94<em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-vis= ibility: hidden; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15246990538= 79_134426">Oryx and Crake</em> </div></div><div styl= e=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; pa= dding: 0px; min-height: 501.219px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 2= 38);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134427"><figure style=3D"box-si= zing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_= ym19_1_1524699053879_134428"><img src=3D"https://orion-uploads.openroadmedi= a.com/lg_d985932fc82c-3974580816_e2de574054_z.jpg" alt=3D"Margaret Atwood q= uotes The Year of the Flood" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; bac= kface-visibility: hidden; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; ma= x-width: 100%; min-height: 400.219px; width: 603.188px; object-fit: cover; = cursor: default;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134429" data-id=3D"= 208fb16a-be40-8b60-f4ce-cd684c74ded8" class=3D""><figcaption style=3D"box-s= izing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0= _ym19_1_1524699053879_134430"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10= px 0px 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153,= 153); font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699= 053879_134431"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-vi= sibility: hidden; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15246= 99053879_134432"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; ba= ckface-visibility: hidden; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6; text-rende= ring: optimizeLegibility;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134433">Ma= rgaret Atwood at Canada's Word in the Street festival to promote her 2009 b= ook The Year of the Flood.</div></span><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; m= argin: 5px 0px 10px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_= 3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134434">Photo Credit: <span style=3D"box-s= izing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; color: rgb(4, 28,= 43);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134435">Peter Pelisek/Flickr (= CC)</span></div></div></figcaption></figure></div><div style=3D"box-sizing:= inherit; margin: 0px 0px 60px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;"= id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134436"><div style=3D"box-sizing: in= herit; margin-bottom: 1em; backface-visibility: hidden; font-size: 18px; li= ne-height: 30px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)= ;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134437">This quote comes from Atwo= od's dystopian novel <a href=3D"https://www.amazon.com/Oryx-Crake-Madd= Addam-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B000FC1BNI/ref=3Dsr_1_1_twi_kin_1?tag=3Dtheport= alist-20" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; backface-visibility: hidden; line-h= eight: inherit; color: rgb(46, 95, 117); text-decoration-line: none; cursor= : pointer; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; border-bottom: 1px s= olid;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134438"><em style=3D"box-sizin= g: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; line-height: inherit;= " id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134439">Oryx and Crake</em></a>, th= e first book in a trilogy set in a post-apocalyptic world. It refers to the= tenderness that the character Snowman feels for the natural world, even af= ter the apocalypse. </div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-b= ottom: 1em; backface-visibility: hidden; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px= ; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id=3D"yui_3_= 16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134440">The novel was shortlisted for the Man Boo= ker Prize for fiction in 2003. <em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margi= n: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_= 0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134441">Oryx and Crake</em> was followed by&nbs= p;<a href=3D"https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002PXFYKG/ref=3Dseries_rw_d= p_sw?tag=3Dtheportalist-20" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; backface-visibili= ty: hidden; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(46, 95, 117); text-decoration-= line: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; bo= rder-bottom: 1px solid;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134442"><em = style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; lin= e-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134443">The Year = of the Flood</em></a> in 2009, and <a href=3D"https://www.amazon.= com/gp/product/B00BRUQ3PS/ref=3Dseries_rw_dp_sw?tag=3Dtheportalist-20" styl= e=3D"box-sizing: inherit; backface-visibility: hidden; line-height: inherit= ; color: rgb(46, 95, 117); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; out= line-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid;" id=3D"y= ui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134444"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; ma= rgin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_= 16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134445">MaddAddam</em></a> in 2013. &n= bsp;</div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; backface-v= isibility: hidden; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-rendering: opti= mizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053= 879_134446"><br></div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;= backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_152469= 9053879_134450"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; bac= kface-visibility: hidden; font-size: 30px; line-height: 32px; text-renderin= g: optimizeLegibility; font-family: rogue-sans, sans-serif; font-weight: 70= 0;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134451">=E2=80=9CIgnoring isn=E2= =80=99t the same as ignorance: you have to work at it.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=94<e= m style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; l= ine-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134452">The Han= dmaid's Tale </em></div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: i= nherit; margin: 10px 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px; min-he= ight: 418.469px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);" id=3D"yui_3_= 16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134453"><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; mar= gin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15246990538= 79_134454"><img src=3D"https://orion-uploads.openroadmedia.com/lg_2e04dc5c2= c55-elisabeth-moss-as-offred.jpg" alt=3D"Margaret Atwood quotes The Handmai= d's Tale Offred" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibi= lity: hidden; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100= %; min-height: 339.469px; width: 603.188px; object-fit: cover; cursor: defa= ult;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134455" data-id=3D"0f858b28-6f4= 6-0f1e-4c6e-31d013a6504b"><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin:= 0px; backface-visibility: hidden;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_1= 34456"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 0px 0px; backface-vi= sibility: hidden; padding: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 14px;= line-height: 20px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134457"><span st= yle=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; color= : rgb(102, 102, 102);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134458"><div s= tyle=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; backface-visibility: hidd= en; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibilit= y;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134459">Elisabeth Moss as Offred = in Hulu's <em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visi= bility: hidden; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_152469905387= 9_134460">The Handmaid's Tale</em>.</div></span><div style=3D"box-sizing: i= nherit; margin: 5px 0px 10px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;" i= d=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134461">Photo Credit: <span style= =3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; color: r= gb(4, 28, 43);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134462">Hulu</span></= div></div></figcaption></figure></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; ma= rgin: 0px 0px 60px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3= _16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134463"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margi= n-bottom: 1em; backface-visibility: hidden; font-size: 18px; line-height: 3= 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id=3D"yui= _3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134464">The passivity of =E2=80=9Cignorance=E2= =80=9D versus the activity of =E2=80=9Cignoring=E2=80=9D is highlighted in = this passage from <a href=3D"https://www.amazon.com/Handmaids-Tale-Mar= garet-Atwood-ebook/dp/B003JFJHTS/ref=3Dsr_1_1_ha?tag=3Dtheportalist-20" sty= le=3D"box-sizing: inherit; backface-visibility: hidden; line-height: inheri= t; color: rgb(46, 95, 117); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; ou= tline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid;" id=3D"= yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134465"><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; m= argin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3= _16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134466">The Handmaid=E2=80=99s Tale</em></a>. Pr= otagonist Offred reflects that the women living in the dystopian Republic o= f Gilead <em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visib= ility: hidden; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879= _134467">choose</em> to ignore the reality of their miserable lives. T= hey <em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility= : hidden; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_1344= 68">choose</em> passivity, they <em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;= margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui= _3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134469">choose</em> not to rebel, rather = than to risk what might happen if they fought against their circumstances. = </div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; ba= ckface-visibility: hidden; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-renderi= ng: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15= 24699053879_134470"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backfa= ce-visibility: hidden; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3= _16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134471">RELATED: </span><a href=3D"https://= theportalist.com/9-great-quotes-from-sci-fi-legend-samuel-delany" style=3D"= box-sizing: inherit; backface-visibility: hidden; line-height: inherit; col= or: rgb(46, 95, 117); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; outline-= style: initial; outline-width: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid;" id=3D"yui_3_= 16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134472"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margi= n: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit= ;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134473">9 Great Quotes from Sci-Fi= Legend Samuel Delany</span></a></div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inher= it; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16= _0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134474"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-b= ottom: 1rem; backface-visibility: hidden; font-size: 30px; line-height: 32p= x; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: rogue-sans, sans-serif;= font-weight: 700;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134475">=E2=80=9C= When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely= .=E2=80=9D</div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 60= px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_152= 4699053879_134476"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; b= ackface-visibility: hidden; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-render= ing: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1= 524699053879_134477">This is from a question and answer with Atwood in the = hardcover edition of <em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; ba= ckface-visibility: hidden; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1= 524699053879_134478">Oryx and Crake</em>. Atwood is asked about the =E2=80= =9Cwordplays=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cmoments of deadpan humor=E2=80=9D in her= otherwise very serious novel. The above quote is part of her answer; read = her full response <a href=3D"http://www.powells.com/book/oryx-and-crak= e-9780739304082" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; backface-v= isibility: hidden; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(46, 95, 117); text-deco= ration-line: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: initial; outline-width: = 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_13447= 9">here</a>.</div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; ba= ckface-visibility: hidden; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-renderi= ng: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15= 24699053879_134480"><br></div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; marg= in: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_= 1_1524699053879_134484"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1= rem; backface-visibility: hidden; font-size: 30px; line-height: 32px; text-= rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: rogue-sans, sans-serif; font-we= ight: 700;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134485">=E2=80=9CMen are = afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill t= hem.=E2=80=9D </div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: = 10px 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px; min-height: 380.906px;= border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524= 699053879_134486"><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backfa= ce-visibility: hidden;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134487"><img = src=3D"https://orion-uploads.openroadmedia.com/lg_10ef160132d5-screen-shot-= 2017-02-09-at-50432-pm.png" alt=3D"Margaret Atwood quotes The Handmaid's Ta= le" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden;= display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; min-height= : 301.906px; width: 603.188px; object-fit: cover; cursor: default;" id=3D"y= ui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134488" data-id=3D"d86e0e7f-76c2-2bb6-6e9c-4= 4fd91b63770"><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backfac= e-visibility: hidden;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134489"><div s= tyle=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 0px 0px; backface-visibility: hid= den; padding: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 14px; line-height:= 20px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134490"><span style=3D"box-si= zing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; color: rgb(102, 10= 2, 102);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134491"><div style=3D"box-s= izing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; backface-visibility: hidden; font-size= : inherit; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" id=3D"yui= _3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134492">Alexis Bledel as Ofglen in <em st= yle=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; line-= height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134493">The Handmai= d's Tale</em>.</div></span><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 5px 0= px 10px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_= 1_1524699053879_134494">Photo Credit: <span style=3D"box-sizing: inher= it; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; color: rgb(4, 28, 43);" id=3D= "yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134495">Hulu</span></div></div></figcaptio= n></figure></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 60px; b= ackface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15246990= 53879_134496"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; backfa= ce-visibility: hidden; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-rendering: = optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_152469= 9053879_134497">This <em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; ba= ckface-visibility: hidden; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1= 524699053879_134498">Handmaid</em> quote seems like it could be the pr= emise of the book=E2=80=94as well as the root cause of many issues relating= to gender today. It's a depressing fact, to be sure, but we're grateful th= at Atwood's literary masterpieces continue to speak this truth, and show wo= men persevering in the face of overwhelming danger. </div><div style= =3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; backface-visibility: hidden; f= ont-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; colo= r: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134499"><br></di= v></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility= : hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134503"><div= style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; backface-visibility: hi= dden; font-size: 30px; line-height: 32px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibilit= y; font-family: rogue-sans, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0= _ym19_1_1524699053879_134504">=E2=80=9CA word after a word after a word is = power.=E2=80=9D</div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0= px 60px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_= 1_1524699053879_134505"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1= em; backface-visibility: hidden; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-r= endering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym1= 9_1_1524699053879_134506">This comes from a verse in Atwood=E2=80=99s poem,= =E2=80=9CSpelling,=E2=80=9D in which she reflects on the difficulties wome= n have historically experienced in reconciling the relationship between =E2= =80=9Cmother=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cwriter.=E2=80=9D The poem then moves on = to discuss how women have had their childbearing rights denied, controlled,= and otherwise manipulated throughout history. Read the full poem <a h= ref=3D"https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/spelling/" target=3D"_blank" style= =3D"box-sizing: inherit; backface-visibility: hidden; line-height: inherit;= color: rgb(46, 95, 117); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; outl= ine-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid;" id=3D"yu= i_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134507">here</a> . &nb= sp;</div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; backface-vi= sibility: hidden; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-rendering: optim= izeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15246990538= 79_134508"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibi= lity: hidden; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym1= 9_1_1524699053879_134509">RELATED: </span><a href=3D"https://theportal= ist.com/books-like-the-handmaids-tale" target=3D"_self" style=3D"box-sizing= : inherit; backface-visibility: hidden; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(46= , 95, 117); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: ini= tial; outline-width: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_= 1_1524699053879_134510"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; ba= ckface-visibility: hidden; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"y= ui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134511">Books Like </span><em style=3D"= box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; line-height:= inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134512"><span style=3D"box= -sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; font-weight: 70= 0; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134513">The= Handmaid's Tale</span></em></a><em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0= px; backface-visibility: hidden; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym= 19_1_1524699053879_134514"><span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;= backface-visibility: hidden; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit;" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134515"> </span></em></div></div><= div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden;= padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134516"><div style=3D= "box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; backface-visibility: hidden; fon= t-size: 30px; line-height: 32px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-f= amily: rogue-sans, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1= 524699053879_134517">=E2=80=9C[Humans] have hope built in. If our ancestors= had not had that component, they would not have bothered getting up in the= morning. You are always going to have hope that today there will be a gira= ffe, where yesterday there wasn=E2=80=99t one.=E2=80=9D</div></div><div sty= le=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; p= adding: 0px; min-height: 480.031px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, = 238);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134518"><figure style=3D"box-s= izing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0= _ym19_1_1524699053879_134519"><img src=3D"https://orion-uploads.openroadmed= ia.com/lg_6be440904188-5208761318_e8cfefb8b5_o.jpg" alt=3D"Margaret Atwood = quotes" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hid= den; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; min-he= ight: 401.031px; width: 603.188px; object-fit: cover; cursor: default;" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134520" data-id=3D"6ac88b8e-d20b-ae2a-2= f7e-6c3e63c9ab1b"><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; ba= ckface-visibility: hidden;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134521"><= div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 0px 0px; backface-visibility= : hidden; padding: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 14px; line-he= ight: 20px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134522"><span style=3D"b= ox-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; color: rgb(10= 2, 102, 102);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134523"><div style=3D"= box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; backface-visibility: hidden; font= -size: inherit; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134524">Atwood in 2010.</div></span><di= v style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 5px 0px 10px; backface-visibility: = hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134525">Photo = Credit: <span style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visi= bility: hidden; color: rgb(4, 28, 43);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15246990538= 79_134526">Mark Hill/Flickr (CC)</span></div></div></figcaption></figure></= div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 60px; backface-visib= ility: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134527"= ><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; backface-visibility= : hidden; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; text-rendering: optimizeLegib= ility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_13452= 8">Atwood made this observation during a discussion with <a href=3D"ht= tp://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/margaret-atwood-the-prophet-of-d= ystopia" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; backface-visibilit= y: hidden; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(46, 95, 117); text-decoration-l= ine: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; bor= der-bottom: 1px solid;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134529"><em s= tyle=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; line= -height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134530">The New Yo= rker</em></a>. She was addressing her decision to contribute her manuscript= <em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: h= idden; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134531"= >Scribbler Moon</em> to the <a href=3D"http://www.cbc.ca/radio/da= y6/episode-288-fort-mcmurray-s-fridges-future-library-fake-weddings-north-k= orea-forced-labour-more-1.3614379/the-future-library-project-in-100-years-t= his-forest-will-be-harvested-to-print-david-mitchell-s-latest-work-1.361440= 9" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; backface-visibility: hid= den; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(46, 95, 117); text-decoration-line: n= one; cursor: pointer; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; border-bo= ttom: 1px solid;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134532">Future Libr= ary</a>, a Norwegian project compiling a sort of literary time capsule=E2= =80=94the books involved in the project won't be read until 2114. Asked abo= ut the apparent paradox of writing speculative fiction about imminent apoca= lypse, while at the same time contributing to a project based on the assump= tion that our species will be extant=E2=80=94and reading!=E2=80=94in 2114, = Atwood said she believes hope is an essential part of life. That belief is = reflected in even the bleakest of her dystopian novels. </div></div><d= iv style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 15px 0 60px; backface-visibility: = hidden; padding: 0px; max-width: 88rem;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053= 879_134533"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibi= lity: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134534">= <div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 25px; backface-visibility= : hidden; padding-left: 15px; font-size: 28px; line-height: 32px; text-rend= ering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym1= 9_1_1524699053879_134535"><span style=3D"font-family: rogue-sans, sans-seri= f; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" id=3D"yui_3_16_= 0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134669">=E2=80=9CNolite te bastardes carborundorum.= =E2=80=9D =E2=80=94</span><em id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134550"= style=3D"font-family: rogue-sans, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight= : 700; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visi= bility: hidden; line-height: inherit;">The Handmaid=E2=80=99s Tale</em><spa= n style=3D"font-family: rogue-sans, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weigh= t: 700; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style=3D"font-family: rogu= e-sans, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);= "> </span><br></div></div></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; mar= gin: 10px 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px; min-height: 380.9= 06px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1= _1524699053879_134551"><figure style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; b= ackface-visibility: hidden;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134552">= <img src=3D"https://orion-uploads.openroadmedia.com/lg_90ef1a97b2c7-screen-= shot-2017-02-09-at-50226-pm.png" alt=3D"Margaret Atwood quotes The Handmaid= 's Tale" style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hi= dden; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; min-h= eight: 301.906px; width: 603.188px; object-fit: cover; cursor: default;" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134553" data-id=3D"42c95a1a-c3b0-6219-0= e17-5ff4b93b128a" class=3D""><figcaption style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; marg= in: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_152469905387= 9_134554"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 10px 0px 0px; backface= -visibility: hidden; padding: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 14= px; line-height: 20px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134555"><span= style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; co= lor: rgb(102, 102, 102);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134556"><di= v style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; backface-visibility: h= idden; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibi= lity;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134557">Samira Wiley as Moira = in <em style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility:= hidden; line-height: inherit;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_13455= 8">The Handmaid's Tale</em>.</div></span><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit;= margin: 5px 0px 10px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yu= i_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134559">Photo Credit: <span style=3D"box= -sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; color: rgb(4, 2= 8, 43);" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134560">Hulu</span></div></d= iv></figcaption></figure></div><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0= px 0px 60px; backface-visibility: hidden; padding: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_y= m19_1_1524699053879_134561"><div style=3D"box-sizing: inherit; margin-botto= m: 1em; backface-visibility: hidden; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; te= xt-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" dir=3D"ltr" id= =3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1524699053879_134562">This is quintessential Atwood, = a jokey yet utterly profound=E2=80=93given the context=E2=80=93Latin phrase= that translates as ''don't let the bastards grind you down." Protagonist O= ffred finds the phrase carved into the floor of her closet, presumably by t= he woman who lived there before she did. The Commander translates it for Of= fred during one of their illicit meetings. </div>= </div></div></div></div></div></body></html> ------=_Part_1382516_1263155378.1524781699130--