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There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.

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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Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
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I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
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The price of seeing is silence.
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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us.
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I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
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