Marilyn Hacker Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 27, 1942

Topics

MotherTeacherWomanMedicalSchool

I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.

John O. Brennan

DayPeopleNightAmericanEnoughGo

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.

Robert Mondavi

FootballExcelAnythingMarblesElse

I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.

Stefon Harris

MusicSoulCityListeningWonder

I believe 'Lean In' has the power to change not only our outlook but also the world and that it will become a touchstone publication for a generation of women.

Sonny Mehta

ChangeWomenPowerWorldBelieve

I started doing some demos and got online and bought a refurbished laptop, bought a microphone off of eBay. A lot of folks said you can't really do it that way at a pro level, but I did some vocals that way, turned it into the label and they said, 'Wow, where did you record this? The vocals sound great!'

Rodney Atkins

GreatDoingYouSaidWaySound

With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.

Louis Sachar

WhereTriedSettingI TriedFemale

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

Liya Kebede

HealthWomanGivingCountryPoor

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Joyce Cary

PoliticsSoulReligionBodySame

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

Jared Diamond

HistoryEvilUnderstandMindsStudy

The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.

Jose Mujica

TodayBetterToolsCreateStriveUs

24 hour broadcasts have to stretch limited material to fit 24 hours worth of space.

Drew Curtis

SpaceWorthStretch24 HoursHours

Let some people get rich first.

Deng Xiaoping

PeopleRichSome PeopleFirstGet

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