Margaret Atwood Creativity Conversation

Margaret Atwood participated in a Creativity Conversation with students during her three-day visit as the presenter of the 2010 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature. The Conversation was moderated by Rosemary Magee, Vice President and Secretary of Emory University. [October 25, 2010]
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[@CsillaBali]

Margaret Atwood is a great author and a power house of information. She has a global understand of the world and how women's roles evolved in time.

[@acajudi100]

Excelent programs. I am a closet writer, and I love it!

[@izhan6991]

acajudi100 you write in the closet?

[@izhan6991]

acajudi100 I write on the rooftop

[@peggydillon-jackson9729]

Wowzers! I wish I was born knowing this information!

[@AndrewDoherty]

This interviewer is an infuriating narcissist. Every time she responded to an Atwood nugget of gold with “well, anyway...” I died inside a bit.

[@sattarabus]

The host could have been a little more attentive,and cognitively proactive, to elicit crisp slices of her awesome erudition. Towards the end Margaret catches her wool gathering query, and nearly knocks her over. The sound balance could also have been suitably adapted to offset Margaret's rather soft nasal delivery.

[@freshbeanne]

Prof Sattar Basra she seems to rarely be miked adequately in these sorts of things

[@BlackLAHawk]

I'm feeling that Atwood has read much more history and analyzed literary history with more depth than the host.

[@freshbeanne]

BlackLAHawk she's a flipping genius! and has had more years to stoke it

[@madeleinecrown1596]

Her comments about vaccines and wiping populations out is pretty interesting. After minute 48 before minute 51.

[@sleepisoptional]

49:12 covid 19

[@veritas6335]

Atwood is bright and wise but alas, so terribly dreary to listen to. She drones and drones, in a monotone. She’d be wise to take a public speaking course of some kind if she’s going to do so many personal appearances.

[@mubaraksenju7521]

weird. I think her voice is so calm and each word means a lot! could watch her for hours even tho I just found out about her a few weeks ago.

[@scudder99]

too much talking by those other than Margaret Atwood.

[@RunninUpThatHillh]

yeah..and cliche sucks!

[@cfcreative1]

this woman has led several generations of women to head into menopause without kids almost like a cult.

[@freshbeanne]

cfcreative She has a daughter and never spoke against reproducing. There are other women you could more validly accuse of that.

[@legalfictionnaturalfact3969]

Yeah, Margaret is a mother. But really, refusing to reproduce with men is actually a powerful strategy against patriarchy, if one were so inclined. :-)

[@cfcreative1]

@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 Makes sense probably to someone.

[@legalfictionnaturalfact3969]

@@cfcreative1 to everyone who understands how patriarchy works and the fact that it's based on patrilinealism, yes, it makes perfect sense to refuse to bear children that will be of a man's name.

[@fashklash]

My first question is why should I follow someone who looks so sour and postmodernist when we have such a great literary heritage in genteel souls like Dickens, Dovstoevsky, Shakespeare etc. I hate dry and hostile writing like this.

[@appletree6898]

I think she is very kind and gracious. I would call her a genteel soul.

[@freshbeanne]

Dylan Berndt it's just how she speaks, not the sum of who she is, and this is her sharing thoughts, what dry writing are you even talking about?