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The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind herself that there is a subject so incalculably vast significance to humanity, about which virtually nothing is known because writers have not been mothers.

Alicia Ostriker

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Alicia Ostriker

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Born: November 11, 1937 (age 87)
Bio: Alicia Suskin Ostriker is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry. She was called "America's most fiercely honest poet," by Progressive.
Known for:
  1. The Book of Seventy (2009)
  2. The volcano sequence (2002)
  3. The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog (2014)
  4. The imaginary lover (1986)

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