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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
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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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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
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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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The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger, and more interesting. The poor and the weak die with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing in the dark of the grave like the hair and the nails.
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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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The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
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The work of the world is common as mud.
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The real writer is one who really writes.
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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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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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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.
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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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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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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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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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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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Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
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