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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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If I observe my cats carefully, it is partly because I observe everyone I deal with as carefully as I can and partly because they amuse and entertain me. They are an important part of the fabric of my daily life.
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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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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire.
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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
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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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The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
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My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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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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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.
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I wasn't afraid of being poor I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to anything else.
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Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
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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 price of seeing is silence.
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The real writer is one who really writes.
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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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The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.
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