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Aunt Lydia Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“Boy, look at these outfits. It’s a parade of sluts....Take your hands out of your pocket!”
— Aunt Lydia,
Tagged: Sluts, Slut-shaming
“The world can be quite an ugly place. But we cannot wish that ugliness away. We cannot hide from that ugliness.”
— Aunt Lydia, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Offred
Tagged: ugliness, ugly, Hiding, wishes
“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, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Offred
Tagged: familiar, Ordinary, strange
“The most painful thing is not the betrayal of trust, June. Do you know what's most painful? The most painful thing in this entire ugly incident is the ingratitude.”
— Aunt Lydia, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum
Tagged: Trust, Betrayal, Pain, ugly, Ingratitude
“Soon you will be leaving us for new homes, a new family. And they won't judge you for your looks, or your clothes, or your ability to sound clever.”
— Aunt Lydia, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum
Tagged: looks, Change, clever, Family
“There is no greater miracle than the miracle of life.”
— Aunt Lydia,
Tagged: Miracles, Life
“May the Lord keep you in his mercy, you stupid girl.”
— Aunt Lydia, The Handmaid's Tale, Season 1: The Bridge
Tagged: Lord, Mercy, Stupid
“They made such a mess of everything. They filled the air with chemicals and radiation and poison! So, God whipped up a special plague. The plague of infertility….As birthrates fell, they made things worse. Birth control pills, morning-after pills, murdering babies. Just so they could have their orgies, their Tinder.”
— Aunt Lydia, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Offred
Tagged: Tinder, Infertility, Chemicals, poison, Radiation, God, Orgies, birth control, Abortion
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