"As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down."
-Marilyn Hacker
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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.“
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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."
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"I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem."
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