Quote of the day
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.
Gayle Rubin
Born: 1949 (age 76)
Bio: Gayle S. Rubin is an American cultural anthropologist best known as an activist and theorist of sex and gender politics.