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Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.

Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
Activist
Climate Activist
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Sometimes
Made
Time
Underground
Slowly
Connections
Healing
Grow
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The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
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The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
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Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.
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A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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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.
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Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.
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This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children. Don't do your enemies' work for them. Finish your own.
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The price of seeing is silence.
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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
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Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
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We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us.
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Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.
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Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.
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A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.
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When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
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I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
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