"My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time."

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For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For a woman to be a woman, did she have to be a mother, or at least prepare herself to raise children? Soldiers and mothers were the sacrificial couple, honored by statues in the park, lauded for their willingness to give their lives to others.

— Carol Gilligan