Minnie Bruce Pratt Professions : Educator Born : September 12, 1946 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Minnie Bruce Pratt We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if we pause, watch and listen closely we'll see the multiplicity of ways in which people are sexed and gendered. There exists a range of personal identifications around woman, man, in-between-we don't even have names or pronouns that reflect that in between place but people certainly live in it. Minnie Bruce Pratt names men people I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go. Minnie Bruce Pratt writing doors thinking I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poet—and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self. Minnie Bruce Pratt falling-in-love self writing Similar Authors Booker T. Washington educator Allan Kardec educator Arnold Ehret educator Alexander Sutherland Neill educator Bill Nye educator David Berlinski educator All Authors
