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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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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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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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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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I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
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Shared laughter is erotic too.
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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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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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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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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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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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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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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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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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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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When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
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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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Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.
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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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