Quote

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

Marge Piercy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
Activist
Climate Activist
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Love
Thirds
Life
Gift
Listening
Second
Novelists
Understanding
Seconds
Three
Empathy
Firsts
Feminist
First
Third

More quotes by Marge Piercy

Image
Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.
Marge Piercy
Image
The price of seeing is silence.
Marge Piercy
Image
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
Marge Piercy
Image
Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
Marge Piercy
Image
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
Marge Piercy
Image
Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
Marge Piercy
Image
There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
Marge Piercy
Image
Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.
Marge Piercy
Image
I wasn't afraid of being poor I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to anything else.
Marge Piercy
Image
We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.
Marge Piercy
Image
The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
Marge Piercy
Image
Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.
Marge Piercy
Image
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
Marge Piercy
Image
In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.
Marge Piercy
Image
The real writer is one who really writes.
Marge Piercy
Image
The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You wait and wait.
Marge Piercy
Image
Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen: reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in. This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always, for every gardener knows that after the digging, after the planting, after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.
Marge Piercy
Image
Every poet has a certain amount of stuff. That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.
Marge Piercy
Image
If I observe my cats carefully, it is partly because I observe everyone I deal with as carefully as I can and partly because they amuse and entertain me. They are an important part of the fabric of my daily life.
Marge Piercy
Image
We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.
Marge Piercy