Quote

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.

Marge Piercy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
Activist
Climate Activist
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Else
Couldn
Littles
Afraid
Anything
Took
Little
Wasn
Writing
Imagine
Good
Getting
Sacrificing
Poor
Granted
Rather
Sacrifice

More quotes by Marge Piercy

Image
Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
Marge Piercy
Image
Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.
Marge Piercy
Image
Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.
Marge Piercy
Image
Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.
Marge Piercy
Image
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.
Marge Piercy
Image
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
Marge Piercy
Image
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
Marge Piercy
Image
The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger, and more interesting. The poor and the weak die with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing in the dark of the grave like the hair and the nails.
Marge Piercy
Image
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.
Marge Piercy
Image
The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
Marge Piercy
Image
Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.
Marge Piercy
Image
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.
Marge Piercy
Image
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
Image
Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.
Marge Piercy
Image
Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
Marge Piercy
Image
There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
Marge Piercy
Image
Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
Marge Piercy
Image
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.
Marge Piercy
Image
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.
Marge Piercy
Image
The real writer is one who really writes.
Marge Piercy