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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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Shared laughter is erotic too.
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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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Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
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What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
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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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Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
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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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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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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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There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
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Nobody can live on a bridge or plant potatoes but it is fine for comings and goings, meetings, partings and long views and a real connection to someplace else where you may in the crazy weathers of struggle how and again want to be.
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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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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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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
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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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The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.
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The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
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We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us.
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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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