Women Poets

Famous quotes containing the words women and/or poets:

“The social forces that operate on a family during the daughter’s formative years continue to shape her experience. Thus the families, schools, and jobs that involve poor women are likely to be very hierarchically arranged, demanding conformity, passivity, and obedience—all unsupportive of continued intellectual growth.”
—Mary Field Belenky (20th century)

“Can you remember? when we thought
the poets taught how to live?”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)