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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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More quotes by 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
Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.
Marge Piercy
The powerful don't make revolutions
Marge Piercy
I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
Marge Piercy
Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.
Marge Piercy
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.
Marge Piercy
The price of seeing is silence.
Marge Piercy
Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.
Marge Piercy
Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.
Marge Piercy
We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.
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
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
Marge Piercy
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
Marge Piercy
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.
Marge Piercy
Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.
Marge Piercy
There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
Marge Piercy
Shared laughter is erotic too.
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
Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.
Marge Piercy
I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
Marge Piercy
