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Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.

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
Plans
Please
Everybody
Social
Earth
Fertilizing
Wedding
Luck
Creating

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I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let me onlynot feel I wasted any, let menot feel I forgot to love anyoneI meant to love, that I forgotto give what I held in my hands,that I forgot to do some littlepiece of the work that wantedto come through.
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Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
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Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.
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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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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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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.
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The powerful don't make revolutions
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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.
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Shared laughter is erotic too.
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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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Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
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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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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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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.
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When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
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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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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.
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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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