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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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Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.
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Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
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The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
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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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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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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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Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
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There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
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The work of the world is common as mud.
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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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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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The price of seeing is silence.
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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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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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Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
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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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I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.
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