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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 book is dedicated. -- Margaret Atwood
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 much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting. -- Conor Oberst
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 organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting. -- Margaret Atwood
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 viewed in any other light than as the efficient Auxiliary and Handmaid of Religion? -- William Buckland
Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy. -- Richard Morris
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. -- James Russell Lowell
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. -- Thomas Bulfinch
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions. -- Samantha Shannon
I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death. -- Samantha Shannon
I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name was Hetty. The only other fact I knew about her was that Sarah taught her to read: They conspired in a very subversive way, by locking the door and screening the keyhole. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Hunger is the handmaid of genius -- Mark Twain
Labor is the handmaid of religion. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship. -- Calvin Coolidge
The past has always been the handmaid of authority. -- J. H. Plumb
Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought. -- Karl Kraus
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed . -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion. -- Francis Bacon
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth. -- George R. R. Martin
Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral. -- William Everson
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things. -- James Howell
I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor. -- Horace Mann
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, disease and death. -- James A. Garfield
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. -- John Dryden

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