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I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.

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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Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
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The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger, and more interesting. The poor and the weak die with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing in the dark of the grave like the hair and the nails.
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Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.
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The price of seeing is silence.
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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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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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Nobody can live on a bridge or plant potatoes but it is fine for comings and goings, meetings, partings and long views and a real connection to someplace else where you may in the crazy weathers of struggle how and again want to be.
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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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Shared laughter is erotic too.
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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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I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
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When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
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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.
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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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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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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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The real writer is one who really writes.
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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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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
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