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1. "Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us." ~ Marge Piercy

2. "A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail." ~ Marge Piercy

3. "i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people" ~ Marge Piercy

4. "Attention is love, what we must givechildren, mothers, fathers, pets,our friends, the news, the woes of others.What we want to change we curse and thenpick up a tool. Bless whatever you canwith eyes and hands and tongue. If youcan't bless it, get ready to make it new." ~ Marge Piercy

5. "In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry,a yam of a woman of butter and brass," ~ Marge Piercy

6. "Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream." ~ Marge Piercy

7. "Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment." ~ Marge Piercy

8. "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." ~ Marge Piercy

9. "Economy is the bone, politics is the flesh, watch who they beat and who they eat." ~ Marge Piercy

10. "Writing implies faith in someone listening,/ different in content but not need/ from the child who cries in the night./ Making is an attack on dying, on chaos,/ on blind inertia, on the second law/ of thermodynamics, on indifference, on cold,/ on contempt, on the silence/ that does not follow the chord resolved,/ the sentence spoken, but the something/ that cannot be said." ~ Marge Piercy

11. "The work of the world is common as mud.Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.But the thing worth doing well donehas a shape that satisfies, clean and evident." ~ Marge Piercy

12. "Her life seemed to her a great engineering work scarcely begun. Lately more excavation than construction had occurred. She had lost a sense of her own invincibility. In that way she was no longer archetypically American." ~ Marge Piercy

13. "The societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb." ~ Marge Piercy

14. "I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let menot feel I wasted any, let menot feel I forgot to love anyoneI meant to love, that I forgotto give what I held in my hands,that I forgot to do some littlepiece of the work that wantedto come through.(complete poem; http://anotherhand.livejournal.com/15...)" ~ Marge Piercy

15. "Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids." ~ Marge Piercy

16. "Never doubt that you can change history. You already have." ~ Marge Piercy

17. "All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations." ~ Marge Piercy

18. "Huddled in her mink in the Kansas City airport, she had a vision of women writing about sex as openly as male writers, but quite, quite differently. Some women would treat sex much as men did,as conquest, as adventure--in a way as McCarthy had. Other women would treat female sexuality far less romantically then men who did not consider themselves romantics, like Hemingway, were wont to. The earth would not move, no, there would be more biology and less theatrics. Women had less ego involvement in sex than men did, but far more at stake economically." ~ Marge Piercy

19. "If I die this instant will you be more content with the morning news? Will your coffee taste better? I am not your fate. I am not your government…I am not your mother, not your father or your nightmare or your health. I am not a fence, not a wall. I am not the law or actuarial tables of your insurance broker. I am a woman with my guts loose in my hands, howling and it's not because I committed hari-kiri. I suggest either you cook me or sew me back up. I suggest you walk into my pain as into the breaking waves of an ocean of blood, and either we will climb out together and walk away." ~ Marge Piercy

20. "If what we change does not change us, we are playing with blocks." ~ Marge Piercy

21. "Never in your life have you been helpless—under somebody's heel. You never lived where your enemies held power over you, power to run your life or wipe it out. You can't understand. That's how come you stand there feeding me empty slogans!" Luciente bowed her head. "You crit me justly, Connie. Forgive me. I'll try to see your situation more clearly and make less loud noises in your ears." ~ Marge Piercy

22. "Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me." ~ Marge Piercy

23. "In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time." ~ Marge Piercy

24. "The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved." ~ Marge Piercy

25. "It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover." ~ Marge Piercy

26. "When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites." ~ Marge Piercy

27. "My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb." ~ Marge Piercy

28. "Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen." ~ Marge Piercy

29. "Shared laughter is erotic too." ~ Marge Piercy

30. "Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats." ~ Marge Piercy

31. "The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real." ~ Marge Piercy

32. "Burning dinner is not incompetence but war." ~ Marge Piercy

33. "Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket." ~ Marge Piercy

34. "An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over." ~ Marge Piercy

35. "Hate them more than you hate yourself, and you'll stay free!" ~ Marge Piercy

36. "I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in the wind.I loose myself like a flock of blackbirdsstorming into your face.My lightest touch leaves blue prints,bruises on your mind.Desire sandpapers your skinso thin I read the veins and arteriesmaps of routes I will traveltill I lodge in your spine.The night is our fur.We curl inside it licking." ~ Marge Piercy

37. "She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately." ~ Marge Piercy

38. "Finally something besides infatuation had focused him. He was no longer merely flowing water." ~ Marge Piercy

39. "The powerful don't make revolutions" ~ Marge Piercy

40. "Suddenly she thought that these men believed feeling itself a disease, something to be cut out like a rotten appendix. Cold, calculating, ambitious, believing themselves rational and superior, they chased the crouching female animal through the brain with a scalpel. From an early age she had been told that what she felt was unreal and didn't matter. Now they were about to place in her something that would rule her feelings like a thermostat" ~ Marge Piercy

41. "She felt pride and shame wash through her. Mala, the woman who acted. To thrust herself forward into the world." ~ Marge Piercy

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