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)

Cynthia Ozick Quotes

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...