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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
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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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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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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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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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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 moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and take off my sex like a dress and why not?
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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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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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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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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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The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.
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Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
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Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.
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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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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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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
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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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The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
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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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