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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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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.
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The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and take off my sex like a dress and why not?
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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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What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
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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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In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.
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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
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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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We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We don't (most of us) tend to know even cows and pigs, let alone bears or wolverines or red tailed hawks.
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Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
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Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
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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.
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Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
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