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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
Mary Oliver
![Mary Oliver](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: September 10, 1935
Died: January 17, 2019 (aged 83)
Bio: Mary Oliver was an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's best-selling poet".
Known for:
- New and Selected Poems (1992)
- Dog Songs (2013)
- Wild Geese: Selected Poems (1993)
- A Thousand Mornings (2012)
- American Primitive (1983)
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