Carolyn Kizer Quotes

I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.

Carolyn Kizer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 10, 1925 - October 9, 2014

Topics

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Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.

Jim Yong Kim

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I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Joel Osteen

LifeGodBelieveFaceThinkDoing

In every decision we make and in every policy we develop, we are committed to protecting those who cannot protect themselves... the very young and the very old.

Mike Rounds

DecisionYoungProtectOldPolicy

American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.

Michael Schudson

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I did not like 'The Hurt Locker.' It's a lazy way to make a movie, frankly. I could put you on the edge of your seat quite easily, and have you feel the tension for 2 hours, if every other scene practically is, 'Should we cut the red wire or the green wire?'

Michael Moore

RedGreenHurtFeelYouEdge

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

Jayne Meadows

MarriageBestToughMarriagesEven

I crank up the music, and I dance around the house.

Christie Brinkley

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Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online.

Clive Thompson

ExperiencePeopleLookingSmall

'Girls' was my first audition. I'd just taken an audition class, and I was excited to implement those tools.

Allison Williams

ToolsClassFirstExcitedJust

By the end of 2001, between 100,000 to 150,000 Algerians had died in the civil war, as well as 120 foreigners. The cost to the economy ran into billions of dollars. And all this in spite of a tough, 120,000-strong army backed by 80,000 police.

Alistair Horne

PoliceWarToughEndArmyEconomy

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.

Wole Soyinka

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It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.

Peter Carey

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