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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.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Born:
November 11, 1937
(age 87)
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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:
The Book of Seventy (2009)
The volcano sequence (2002)
The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog (2014)
The imaginary lover (1986)
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