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Famous Marilyn Hacker Quotes
“With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.”
“Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus.”
“Poetry dovetails contradictions.”
“Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?”
“i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.”
“You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.”
“There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.”
“Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.”
“Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.”
“Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.”
“I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.”
“Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.”