For Jews, God is an option. - Alicia Ostriker

I think it's inevitable in any religion that some people are psychologically and emotionally attached to past tradition, while others have one foot in the past and want to take that next step into the future. Does this produce tension? Of course it does, and that tension is healthy. It is a sign of life. The same is true of American democracy. Where would the radicals be without conservatives, and vice versa? We push and pull at each other, we call each other bad names, and somehow we move forward. In spite of tragedy.

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

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