
Top 21 Alicia Ostriker Quotes
#1. Passing that fiery tree-if only she could; Be making love, Be making poetry, Be exploding, be speeding through the universe; Like a photon, like a shower; Of yellow blazes...
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
#2. 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 Suskin Ostriker
#3. The last step will be letting my hair go natural. That's when you'll know I'm free ...
Nia Long
#6. Transgender women do not think of themselves as men wearing women's clothing, they ARE women.
Cheryl B. Evans
#7. The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.
Eric Hoffer
#8. The secret shape of this book is a parachute
all the lines leading to the person hanging there
drifting on the wind and always falling
waiting for the mists to clear
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
#9. With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
#10. The work of Jana Harris is unique in American writing. She has always had a voice of true grit - sometimes harsh, sometimes funny, always close to the bone, tart, and indomitable.
Alicia Ostriker
#11. I'm not really superstitious - I don't have any lucky charms or a mascot.
Andrew Flintoff
#13. To our enemies - to our enemies - we will pursue you as only America can. You will fear us.
John R. Allen
#14. Nevertheless, vanity and conceit are defects from which scarcely any convict is exempt.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#15. ...and be emptied of gravity and surrounding by the rouge wave of an emotion she could not name.
Carol Cassella
#16. The forest was, Devan thought, strangely lovely that day, the way a woman can seem more beautiful when she is sad.
Varian Krylov
#17. 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 Suskin Ostriker
#20. It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.
Elizabeth Moon
#21. Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
John Milton
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