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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

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
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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
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Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.
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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.
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Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
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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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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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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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I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To get into parts of the past I want to recall very vividly, I use a form of directed meditation.
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The work of the world is common as mud.
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The powerful don't make revolutions
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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
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Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
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The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and take off my sex like a dress and why not?
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Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.
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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
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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.
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Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
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