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Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.

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
Reflects
Mirror
Mirrors
Inside
Game
Games
Art

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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.
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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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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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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
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Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
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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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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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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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A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.
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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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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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What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
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We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.
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I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
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Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
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The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You wait and wait.
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The powerful don't make revolutions
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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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I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
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