"For Jews, God is an option."

"the silence of women was, for better or worse, built into the culture of Hebrew as a sacred language. Talmudic study …"

"An essay is my way of pursuing an elusive intuition into the forest of what I cannot yet understand."

""Poetry makes nothing happen," said W. H. Auden, but there are those of us who disagree. Poetry can tear at the heart…"

"Ezra Pound in ABC of Reading remarks that when poetry and music move too far from their origins in music and dance, t…"

"The greatest writers in the world are always approaching genderlessness, because there is no nook or cranny of their …"

"To tell all the truth and tell it straight has become the program of most women poets. The truth is mysterious enough…"

"The greatest women writers of the past (at least in the English language, which is the only language I know well enou…"

"It is self-evident to me that a literary history which selects only a few writers to represent a period is as partial…"

"I grew up as a third-generation atheist-socialist Jew. My religious training consisted of being told that religion wa…"