Quote by Marilyn Hacker
My mother was told she couldnt go to medical school because she wa

My mother was told she couldnt go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. – Marilyn Hacker

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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise – nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. – Marilyn Hacker

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I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. – Marilyn Hacker

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A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help. – Les Aspin

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When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother. – Rodney Dangerfield

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A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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