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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.

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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Whatever
Energy
Sink

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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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The real writer is one who really writes.
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Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.
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When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
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Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
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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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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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Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.
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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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