# @60minutes on TikTok

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.tiktok.com/@60minutes/video/7675810885738220813
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69467044-60minutes-tiktok
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-19T18:27:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** 60 Minutes (@60minutes) — https://gondola.cc/60minutes

## Caption

Author Margaret Atwood shows 60 Minutes the folders of research and news clippings she collected to substantiate her plots. She writes by a strict rule: if it didn’t happen, somewhere, at some time, it doesn’t make it into the pages of her fiction. She showed 60 Minutes an article that helped inspire her novel “The Handmaid’s Tale.” It reads: “Women forced to have babies… Persistent non-pregnancy will be considered a crime against the state.” In Atwood’s dystopian book, a dwindling number of fertile women are forced to cloak themselves in red and bear children for the elite. #handmaidstale #margaretatwood 

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- **Views:** 40,900
- **Likes:** 5,264
- **Shares:** 613
- **Comments:** 22

## Tags

handmaidstale, margaretatwood

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