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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
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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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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.
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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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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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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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I have no connections here only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.
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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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Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
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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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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
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Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
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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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We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.
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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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Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
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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.
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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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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
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The real writer is one who really writes.
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In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.
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