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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
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Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
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A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.
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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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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
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Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.
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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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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
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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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