| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 26491 |
| QUOTATION: | The woman poet must be either a ... sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942), U.S. poet and editor. As quoted in How to Suppress Women’s Writing, ch. 6, by Joanna Russ (1983).
Said on November 2, 1976. The lesbian feminist poet was commenting on the small amount of attention given to Muriel Rukeyser’s collected poems, as compared with the much greater amount given to Marianne Moore (the “eccentric”) and Sylvia Plath (the “suicide”). |
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