The Bronze Medal

I made a rule for myself: I would not include anything that human beings had not already done in some other place or time, or for which the technology did not already exist. I did not wish to be accused of dark, twisted inventions, or of misrepresenting the human potential for deplorable behaviour.

— Margaret Atwood looks back at writing The Handmaid’s Tale.

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20. mar-see-ah said: I recently read this for the first time, & I didn’t see it so much as a feminist book, but as a warning as to how religious rule can run away with itself and even harm those who start it (see the wife that Offred works for who was a gospel tv person)
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