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What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
Activist
Climate Activist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
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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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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 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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In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.
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The work of the world is common as mud.
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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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I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
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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 people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
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This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children. Don't do your enemies' work for them. Finish your own.
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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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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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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.
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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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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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