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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Detroit
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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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When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
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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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What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
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Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.
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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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Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
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I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.
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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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You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire.
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We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We don't (most of us) tend to know even cows and pigs, let alone bears or wolverines or red tailed hawks.
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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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Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.
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Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
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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 am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
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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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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
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My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.
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