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The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
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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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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 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.
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