Marge Piercy Quotes
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Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
— Marge Piercy
Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
— Marge Piercy
I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.
— Marge Piercy
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.
— Marge Piercy
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
— Marge Piercy
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
— Marge Piercy
Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
— Marge Piercy
Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
— Marge Piercy
It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
— Marge Piercy
I am my mother's daughter, ... I am her only novel.
— Marge Piercy
She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.
— Marge Piercy
I think we validate our lives through our actions.
— Marge Piercy
Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground
— Marge Piercy
I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.
— Marge Piercy
History is a game played backwards only.
— Marge Piercy
The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.
— Marge Piercy
Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.
— Marge Piercy
The powerful don't make revolutions
— Marge Piercy
they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.
— Marge Piercy
Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.
— Marge Piercy
When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.
— Marge Piercy
The price of seeing is silence.
— Marge Piercy
Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.
— Marge Piercy
I don't apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn't - I didn't continue what wasn't pleasant.
— Marge Piercy
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done
— Marge Piercy
Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.
— Marge Piercy
Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
— Marge Piercy
Hate them more than you hate yourself, and you'll stay free!
— Marge Piercy
This life is a war we are not yetwinning for our daughters' children.
Don't do your enemies' work for them.
Finish your own. — Marge Piercy
Shared laughter is erotic too.
— Marge Piercy
I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.
— Marge Piercy
The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
— Marge Piercy
Good will starts out fat and sweetas tub butter and turns slowly rancid.
It must be made again daily
if we want it fresh. — Marge Piercy
Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
— Marge Piercy
The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.
— Marge Piercy
Finally something besides infatuation had focused him. He was no longer merely flowing water.
— Marge Piercy
She felt pride and shame wash through her. Mala, the woman who acted. To thrust herself forward into the world.
— Marge Piercy
Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.
— Marge Piercy
My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
— Marge Piercy
My idea of Hell is to be young again.
— Marge Piercy
Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.
— Marge Piercy
We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
— Marge Piercy
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.
— Marge Piercy
Never let them know who you really are, how you live, and that you can observe and think, that was her motto.
— Marge Piercy
Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel.
— Marge Piercy
There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.
— Marge Piercy
Like species, couples die out or evolve.
— Marge Piercy
Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.
— Marge Piercy
