What we can understand from this quote is that nothing says you can't do what you want, but it It's up to you to decide whether it's right or wrong to do so. do it. Gilead was created with the idea that men can change society and they took the initiative to do so and ended up succeeding. Even though in society “there are no signs” that it is wrong to have gender biases, people still tend to accept them since that is how we were raised to think. Because of the near-total lack of boundaries in our society, Atwood suggests that we will need laws to keep our society in a Gilead-like form. The rules applied will prevent people from committing acts, whether major or minor, harmful.