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.
June Nash

Born: 1927
Died: 2019 (aged 92)
Bio: June C. Nash was a social and feminist anthropologist and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the City University of New York.
Known for:
- In the eyes of the ancestors (1970)
- Crafts in the World Market (1993)