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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.
Marge Piercy
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Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
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I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.
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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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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 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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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
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The work of the world is common as mud.
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The powerful don't make revolutions
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The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.
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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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