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I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
Activist
Climate Activist
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Detroit
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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.
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The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You wait and wait.
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Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.
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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
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The work of the world is common as mud.
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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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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
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I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.
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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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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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The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.
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Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
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The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and take off my sex like a dress and why not?
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Shared laughter is erotic too.
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Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
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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.
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Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
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When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
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Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
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