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Marilyn Hacker

"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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Akiroq Brost

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

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Akiroq Brost

"Medical physics is an applied area of physics."

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Akiroq Brost

"I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment."

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Akiroq Brost

"Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%."

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Akiroq Brost

"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science."

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Akiroq Brost

"To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?"

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Akiroq Brost

"I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices."

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Akiroq Brost

"We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American."

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Akiroq Brost

"When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills."

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"If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy."

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Marilyn Hacker
"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."

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Marilyn Hacker
"Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that."

Time

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Marilyn Hacker
"Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community."

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Marilyn Hacker
"Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated."

Literature

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Marilyn Hacker
"There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something."

Being

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Marilyn Hacker
"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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Marilyn Hacker
"The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition."

Language

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Marilyn Hacker
"I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself."

Literature

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Marilyn Hacker
"You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship."

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"Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative."

Architecture

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