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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.

Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
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The work of the world is common as mud.
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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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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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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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I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To get into parts of the past I want to recall very vividly, I use a form of directed meditation.
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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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There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
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The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You wait and wait.
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The price of seeing is silence.
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