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... 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. - Cynthia Ozick
Attribution: Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928), U.S. author. Woman in Sexist Society, ch. 19 (1971). Written in 1969. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was a great Irish poet; “Sailing to Byzantium” was one of his best-loved poems.

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