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Quotes About Handmaidens

They expected that inevitable war would allow the master races, united and self-confident, to prevail, while the divided, "mongrelized," and irresolute peoples would become their handmaidens. Fascism had become conceivable, as we will soon
~ Robert O. Paxton
This also laid the foundation for exponential growth of capitalism and its handmaidens: white supremacy and slavery.
~ Gerald Horne
So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.
~ Tom Robbins
So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.
~ Michael Ondaatje
America was a land of machines, and it was through machines, the miraculous handmaidens of mob culture, that the muses of illiteracy brought America her voice and vision during the years of the immigrants' waves. Centuries ago, movable type had given literacy to the common man. Now, through these wondrous newer machines, he would give it back.
~ Nick Tosches
Amidala, Panaka, and about half the troops climbed through; the others, and the Queen's handmaidens, stayed in the hall to hold off the battle droids. The
~ Patricia C. Wrede