“There aren’t any rules that say you can’t. There’s other people— and sometimes it’s you—who make up those rules, but are they really rules?” -MargaretAtwood GlamourWOTY
, the English-class staple and inspiration for the Emmy-winning Hulu show and countless women’s rights protests this year by activists dressed in oppressive bonnets and red cloaks—she was raised to be a storyteller.
In the 1950s, in Canada, though, that wasn’t a conventional path. “It wasn’t in the book of careers,” Atwood recalls. “There were no creative writing classes, but the thing about the school curriculum was that although there weren’t many Canadian writers, there were women, English women, and one dead American woman, Emily Dickinson, who were really inspiring.
Despite her penchant for dystopia, Atwood’s outlook on the present and the future is far from pessimistic. “It’s been worse,” she says. “You may not think that if you’re young, but it’s been worse for the world in terms of wars.
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