Have you had your soup today?

In the cold crisp taste of coke, it's so satisfying.

It keeps me from eating something else that mine really has those pounds.

It's too hot.

It's too hot.

It's too hot.

Cheeeeeeel out!

Now, you are a legend in the literary world, of course.

The author of the best-selling book, The Handmaid's Tale.

And it tells of a near future patriarchal society called Gilead,

in which the rights of women have been virtually erased.

The Handmaid's are women forced to give birth to the babies of the ruling class.

And you released it in 1985.

And I read that the event in the book came from actual real-life events.

Everything.

Everything?

Well, I didn't want people saying you're certainly a twisted, weird person.

Yeah.

So instead I wanted to be able to say, I made nothing up.

I just relocated it to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they were not pleased at first.

Well, but where were women being forced to have children?

Which century would you like to visit?

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