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Rukeyser

American  
[roo-kahy-zer] / ˈru kaɪ zər /

noun

  1. Muriel, 1913–80, U.S. poet.


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“I’m inspired to be as out loud and proud as Halle Berry was about menopause,” said Rukeyser, who created “Sex/Life” for Netflix.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

Mr. Rukeyser said at the time that she had been laid off with 300 other employees; in his email, he said that he did not recall the Sinatra story.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?” poet Muriel Rukeyser once asked in a poem.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2022

Purely in a mechanical sense it fits, in that it's a series created by a woman, Stacy Rukeyser, whose eyes presumably work.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2021

I mean, Muriel Rukeyser, I think, was the first to start, you know, writing about something like breast feeding and being a lesbian and having children and the domestic life or the body, women’s bodies.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2020

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