Cynthia Ozick Quote

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.

Woman in Sexist Society (1971)

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...

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...

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...

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...