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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.

Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
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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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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 people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
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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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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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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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Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.
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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
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Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
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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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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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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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The price of seeing is silence.
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The real writer is one who really writes.
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Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen: reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in. This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always, for every gardener knows that after the digging, after the planting, after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.
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Shared laughter is erotic too.
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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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What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
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Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
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