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Maude Parker

  • “The one who deals the mortal blow / Receives the mortal wound.”

    • Maude Parker,
    • "I Do Hereby Bequeath ..," in William Ichabod Nichols, ed., Words to Live By ()

  • “By putting his hand around my neck, he slowly strangled himself.”

    • Maude Parker,
    • "I Do Hereby Bequeath ..," in William Ichabod Nichols, ed., Words to Live By ()

Maude Parker, U.S. poet, feminist

(1944 - 1989)