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The real writer is one who really writes.

Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
Activist
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Detroit
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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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I wasn't afraid of being poor I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to anything else.
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The price of seeing is silence.
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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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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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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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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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There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
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When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
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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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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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Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.
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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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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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Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
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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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I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
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