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My mother was told she couldn't 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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Marilyn Hacker
translator, poet, editor, journalist, writer
1942
Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York.
All Quotes by Marilyn Hacker
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You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
— 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