'The Handmaid's Tale' author also read the late-night host's palm during her Thursday night appearance to which she said quipped that he had 'no presidential aspirations.'
The Handmaid's Tale Atwood's story explores the complicated lives of handmaids who are sex slaves forced to give birth for infertile elite couples. Cultural and political observers have noted that the themes and concepts of that seem to parallel today's climate, in particular with the Trump administration making repeated strikes against the rights of women, immigrants, LGBTQ individuals and other marginalized communities.
"It put wind in my sails, let's put it that way," the author said with a smile on her face. "It encouraged me." , Atwood also described the story as a "warning." "It's not me who made this stuff up," said Atwood. "The human race made it up, unfortunately." She also said: "It is a warning," adding, "Simply because I never have believed it can't happen here. I've never believed that.
as having "second lives." "It's been an opera, a graphic novel and it's been a ballet. It's been a movie... It has yet another set of lives for protest movements," she acknowledged.
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