“... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.” NeedsMayChildrenDoeArtPoetrySexCreativityCreativePoetBabyLaborMetaphorMotherhoodPregnancyFulfillingPrivilegedSailingSlursYeatsByzantium Author:Cynthia Ozick
“He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.” KnowsDoeCareCryI CareUniversality Book:Trust Source: Trust
“Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.” FirstsDoeIdeasLanguageFictionSeaLiftsFabricSailVacuumsCadenceFins Book:The Din in the Head Source: The Din in the Head
“When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” DoeAwarenessEventsGratitudeDeserveGrantedThankfulnessSkullsCollarsTaken For GrantedTaking Things For GrantedDon't Take Anything For GrantedThings We Take For Granted Author:Cynthia Ozick
