"It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge." (8)
Atwood early on signifies just how horrible it is to be a woman in this alternate reality. This quote emphasizes the fact that it's easier and less painful to commit suicide than to keep living the way that the girls in the text have to. Atwood even describes what they do just to prevent suicide - shatterproof glass, removing anything that could be used as a noose, and any other sharp objects for obvious reasons. They need to stay alive, for the sole reason of procreation. Any escape from that would be unfair to the men in the society.
check some wording here "into the extent?"
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