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A Moment With Margaret Atwood: Three Inspirations for “The Handmaid’s Tale”

“I did not put anything into the book that had not happened [to women] at some time or in some place in history or was not happening when I was writing the book.  So it was all reality-based and one reason I did that is I did not want to hear ‘You’ve got a warped, twisted imagination and nobody would ever do these things.’  So I just put in things people had done.  And now they are doing more of them.”

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