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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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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Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. – 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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You may not be able to read a doctors handwriting and prescription, but youll notice his bills are neatly typewritten. – Earl Wilson

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The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct. – Samuel J. Meltzer

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If youre so pro-life, do me a favour: dont lock arms and block medical clinics. If youre so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries. – Bill Hicks

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Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell. – Cass Canfield

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