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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
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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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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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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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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