Moira had power now, she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman. I think we found this frightening.

Margaret Atwood
About This Quote

This quote is from the novel "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. It talks about how Moira had gotten control of herself and then gotten other people to take control of her. She had power over her own life, but she was lost in the world. She did not know how to use this power because she did not understand the world around her.

The world was not something that she understood or understood well. She was a victim of circumstance, but she could have arrived at a different result if she had only known how to get people to take control of her actions instead of letting other people do it for her.

Source: The Handmaids Tale

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