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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Christina Hoff Sommers
Born: September 28, 1950 (age 74)
Bio: Christina Marie Hoff Sommers is an American author, former philosophy professor, and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. Sommers is known for her critique of contemporary feminism.
Known for:
- Who Stole Feminism? (1994)
- Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life (1985)
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