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Every poet has a certain amount of stuff. That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.
Marge Piercy
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Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
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I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
Marge Piercy
Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.
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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.
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Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen: reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in. This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always, for every gardener knows that after the digging, after the planting, after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.
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The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.
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Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.
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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
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Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.
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My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.
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The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
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Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
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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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The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
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I have no connections here only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.
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In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.
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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
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Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.
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Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
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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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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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