Stealing the Language Quotes

“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.”
― Alicia Ostriker, Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America

“To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and the imagination and my body are one.”
― Alicia Ostriker, Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America

“The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Flesh becomes Word.”
― Alicia Ostriker, Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America