"I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had â€œbecome a lesbianâ€â€”but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poetâ€”and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self."

Source : "Minnie Bruce Pratt: Feminist Poet Describes Call To Action, Struggle To Write" By Minnie Bruce Pratt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2011.

Minnie Bruce Pratt

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“The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.”
“If you don't fall down, you aren't trying hard enough,”

Source : "Olympic Gold Medalist and Surgeon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 21, 1991.
“We need actions that are really coming from people's souls.”
“My 'Movember' moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansell's, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you try to grow a moustache, you notice everyone else's. There are some amazing moustaches on the grid.”
“We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.”
“God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.”
“Smile, breathe and go slowly.”
“Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans are descended from apes. Or that the earth is much older than four thousand years. Or that someone would ask where Noah go his polar bears from. Or that someone would swear. Father was terrified.”

Source : Guus Kuijer (2012). “The Book of Everything”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.

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