"The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior."

-- Marilyn Hacker

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“That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.”
“When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.”
“I think so many young girls get caught up in the challenge of being with somebody who's dangerous, who's bad, who's enticing, who's all of those things, and you forget what it's like to enjoy simple love.”
“A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.'”

Source : 'Satyricon' 'Cena Trimalchionis' ch. 29, sect. 1
“Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.”
“Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”
“You tell yourself that you're not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, "Well, I won't get that job. But maybe they'll have another job sometime, and they'll remember that I was good."”
“What I tend to tell my students is, â€œWhen you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable.â€”

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