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Women are transforming western religion--six thousand years of male monotheism will not be defeated overnight, but I hope to help.

— Alicia Ostriker Conversations with the World by Phebe Davidsen (1998)

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An essay is my way of pursuing an elusive intuition into the forest of what I cannot yet understand.

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)

Much more killing has been done by people who believed in heaven than by those who didn’t.

Part of the task of the artist is to reach across boundaries, to love and empathize with the other, the stranger.

The American Voice 45 (1998)

Let us never suppose that the structures of our human minds can contain God.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

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