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Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.

Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
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Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.
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The real writer is one who really writes.
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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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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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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
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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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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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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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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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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.
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There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
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I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
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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.
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You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire.
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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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We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.
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