Quotation by Naomi Clark

Perceiving myself through others' ideas of what it means to be a woman has made it difficult for me to achieve the necessary commitment [to be a poet].
Naomi Clark (b. 1932), U.S. poet. As quoted in A Gift That Cannot be Refused, ch. 2, by Mary Biggs (1990).

Written in 1983 in a questionnaire response.
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