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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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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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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that Ive found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. – Marilyn Hacker

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Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur. – Michael J. Fox

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Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question. – Emily Greene Balch

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Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. – Peter Shaffer

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Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. – Don Herold

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