Margaret Atwood (1939-) is a poet and novelist who, still to this day, has a passionate belief in equality and a love of nature. Margaret was a trailblazer for women fighting for equal rights. She grew up as a young woman in the 1950s with a mother who constantly taught her that she could be anything she wanted to be; not just the typical roles that were seen as ‘acceptable’ for women of Margaret’s generation. She channeled her anger towards the status quo in her many poems and books such as “The Handmaid’s Tale,” that appealed to feminists like herself in the 20th century. Atwood’s father was a zoologist at the University of Toronto where Margaret would coincidentally later go on to study and receive her bachelor’s degree. He introduced Margaret