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

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

This is an extraordinary time to be writing as a woman. We follow centuries of silence. The world is all before us. And it is within us. Half the experience of humanity remains to be explored and lifted into language.

It is self-evident to me that a literary history which selects only a few writers to represent a period is as partial as the old sort of history of nations which chronicled only kings and battles and not the lives of the people ruled and fought over-whose movements are in some ways the true movements of history.