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Quotes from Writing Like a Woman — Alicia Ostriker

born 1937 United States

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I believe that the flood of writing by eloquent women in our own time will alter the mainstream of American poetry.

Writing Like a Woman (1983)

To tell all the truth and tell it straight has become the program of most women poets. The truth is mysterious enough, and we are ignorant enough of it, so that lives may be well spent in its quest.

Writing Like a Woman (1983)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alicia Ostriker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.