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Marcia Falk

  • “Dead metaphors make strong idols.”

    • Marcia Falk,
    • "Notes on Composing New Blessings," in Judith Plaskow and Carol P. Christ, eds., Weaving the Visions ()

  • “... in the context of loss, each child is an only to her or his parents. Human relationships do not fill in for, do not substitute for, do not replace each other.”

    • Marcia Falk,
    • in Christina Buchmann and Celina Spiegel, eds., Out of the Garden ()

  • “Difficult as it often is to grasp someone else's pain, it is easy to judge another's behavior.”

    • Marcia Falk,
    • in Christina Buchmann and Celina Spiegel, eds., Out of the Garden ()

Marcia Falk, U.S. poet, painter, Judaic scholar

(1946)