Eavan Boland quoteEavan Boland [1944-0]
Irish Poet 
Quote rank: 112
| I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary - that much the culture conceded - but they were oil and water and could not be mixed. |
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