House of Anansi Press is proud to announce that the 2008 CBC Massey Lectures will be delivered by none other than the award-winning poet, novelist, essayist, activist, and feminist, Margaret Atwood.
To celebrate, we are offering an exclusive excerpt from Atwood's essay "On Being a 'Woman Writer': Paradoxes and Dilemmas" from her 1982 collection Second Words.
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Here's a taste:
"Time after time, I've had interviewers talk to me about my writing for a while, then ask me, ‘As a woman, what do you think about—for instance—the Women's Movement,' as if I could think two sets of thoughts about the same thing, one set as a writer or person, the other as a woman. But no one comes apart this easily; categories like Woman, White, Canadian, Writer are only ways of looking at a thing, and the thing itself is whole, entire and indivisible. Paradox: Woman and Writer are separate categories; but in any individual woman writer, they are inseparable."
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