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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
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
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Warp
Love
Coat
Colored
Woven
Coats
Warm
Happiness
Woof
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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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