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Most people don't need the help of strangers to screw up their lives; most of them are quite capable of doing it themselves!
— Lisa Gardner
You happened to me. You were as deep down as I've ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.
— Marilyn Hacker
If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.
— James Sinegal
So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.
— Marilyn Hacker
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
I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.
— Robert Cormier
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
— Marilyn Hacker
I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.
— Lasse Hallstrom
Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.
— Marilyn Hacker
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.
— Marilyn Hacker
Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.
— Marilyn Hacker
Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.
— Marilyn Hacker
I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
— Marilyn Hacker
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
— Marilyn Hacker
Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus.
— Marilyn Hacker
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.
— Marilyn Hacker
With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.
— Marilyn Hacker
I'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.
— Marilyn Hacker
An Elizabeth in brain and a Mary Stuart in spirit.
— Thomas Hardy
Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?
— Marilyn Hacker
We are, all of us, our own phoenixes, if we choose to be. Out of the ashes, we can be reborn.
— Christie Golden
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
— Marilyn Hacker
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
— Marilyn Hacker
I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.
— Marilyn Hacker
Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.
— Alex Berenson