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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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Colored
Woven
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Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.
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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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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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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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The work of the world is common as mud.
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