aubade:

“I said there was more than one way of living with your head in the sand and that if Moira thought she could create Utopia by shutting herself up in a women-only enclave she was sadly mistaken. Men are not just going to go away, I said. You couldn’t just ignore them.”

Illustration for the Folio Society edition of the Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood. Anna & Elena Balbusso.

(via The Guardian)

I rather enjoyed this novel, although I find the feminist themes to be heavy handed, Atwood created an intricate and rather compelling dystopian vision. On another note I love this illustration and is it just me or despite the barbed wire and ominous hooks do the handmaid with their peaky bonnets and hampers look quaint as hell…