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We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.

Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
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The real writer is one who really writes.
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