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The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.


Marilyn Hacker

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How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Suicide thought is a negative force that needs to be overcome with a positive force,positive thinkin...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is an option for the unwise,but for the wise suicide has got no room to be given an option.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is never the solution to life's problems but hope.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When the mind is filled with positivity the thoughts of suicide becomes virtually non existing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Ninguém o pode aconselhar ou ajudar, — ninguém.
Não há senão um caminho. Procure entrar ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human being has noth...
ENRIQUETA LONGAUEX-VASQUEZ When the candles are out all women are fair
PLUTARCH So few grown women like their lives
KATHARINE GRAHAM Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
GLORIA STEINEM Women are looking for good father material. He can mention the fact that he knows how to coach Littl...
LORI GOTTLIEB It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS A woman has either something to put on or nothing to take off.
VIKRANT PARSAI Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT The glorification of the "'woman's role," then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to...
BETTY FRIEDAN Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.
HELENA RUBINSTEIN However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
ADAM CLARKE If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
BETTE MIDLER Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
JULE STYNE There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE To say that nothing is true, is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and that we ...
OLIVER BOWDEN I had nothing to say to these strangers, whoever or whatever they were.
CATHERINE LACEY The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
UNKNOWN The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys w...
FLORENCE KING @chrstnewever: All men say this one word "Women", mainly to compare a woman with other women. All wo...
CHRISTINE S. WEVER To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours...
DEBASISH MRIDHA It's loud, it's cheap, it's gaudy. It's like everything I've ever done - I LOVE IT!
BETTY GRABLE A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all ...
DEYTH BANGER In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Most women have had the experience of being in a group of men, saying something absolutely profound,...
ANNE SCHAEF Most women have had the experience of being in a group of men, saying something absolutely profound,...
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF I’m very worried about the depiction of women on the screen. It’s gotten worse than ever and it�...
JOHN CASSAVETES A world technology means either a world government or world suicide
MAX LERNER When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
C. JOYBELL C. Marilyn Monroe Productions was the first female-owned production company in Hollywood. She paved the...
MARIAH CAREY The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY I am my own woman.
EVITA PERóN Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor
JANE AUSTEN Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
NAOMI WOLF stop looking for job, create one.
SOTONYE ANGA Why should I apologize for being a HACKER? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?
HARSH MOHAN She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intell...
ANDREA DWORKIN People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe...
ABRAHAM MASLOW A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe...
ABRAHAM MASLOW A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at...
ABRAHAM MASLOW A life without problems is a life less likely to be.
VANCE B.. CHAN The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
HELENA RUBINSTEIN

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MARILYN BUTLER The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn'...
MARILYN MONROE A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.
MARILYN MONROE A career is born in public, talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?
MARILYN MANSON I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting al...
MARILYN MONROE Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, becau...
MARILYN FERGUSON It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling pass...
MARILYN MONROE Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
MARILYN MONROE Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your so...
MARILYN MONROE When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good...
MARILYN MANSON Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'...
MARILYN MONROE I don't follow anybody. I just flip through whatever Instagram sends me. I like to keep my algor...
MARILYN MINTER There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it'...
MARILYN MANSON As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, bu...
MARILYN MANSON