Marge Piercy Quotes

Troubles cured you salty as a country ham smoky to the taste thick-skinned and tender inside.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.

Live as if you like yourself and it may happen.

A 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.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

If you want to be listened to you should put in time listening.

Life is the first gift love is the second and understanding the third.

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.

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.

They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use.

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.

It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth.

People were not getting back what they wanted for their sold labor. Taxes grew and services shrank. Prices rose and quality decayed. Everywhere people felt used and betrayed and coerced and cheated.

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

When will women not be compelledto view their bodies as science projects, gardens to be weeded, dogs to be trained?When will a woman ceaseto be made of pain?

they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

Where do dreams come from?...they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of pages turned they rise like the scent of peonies and infect the brain with their promises.

I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

thinking about tracking. . . . Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your socialclass was established for the rest of your life.