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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
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The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
Marge Piercy
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.
Marge Piercy
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
Marge Piercy
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.
Marge Piercy
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.
Marge Piercy
Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen: reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in. This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always, for every gardener knows that after the digging, after the planting, after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.
Marge Piercy
Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
Marge Piercy
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.
Marge Piercy
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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Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
Marge Piercy
I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
Marge Piercy
Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
Marge Piercy
Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.
Marge Piercy
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
Marge Piercy
There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
Marge Piercy
The powerful don't make revolutions
Marge Piercy
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
Marge Piercy
When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
Marge Piercy
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.
Marge Piercy
Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.
Marge Piercy