Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Born: February 22, 1892
Died: October 19, 1950 (aged 58)
Bio: Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism.
Known for:
- A few figs from thistles (1920)
- Renascence, and other poems (1912)
- Collected Sonnets (1941)
- Collected Poems
- Fatal interview (1931)
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