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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.

— Alicia Ostriker Writing Like a Woman (1983)

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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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