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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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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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In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.
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Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen: reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in. This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always, for every gardener knows that after the digging, after the planting, after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.
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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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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
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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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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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I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
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The work of the world is common as mud.
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Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
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Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.
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Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
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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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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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Every poet has a certain amount of stuff. That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.
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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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