Marge Piercy quotes

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done. (Marge Piercy)
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Marge Piercy
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
Marge Piercy
My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
Marge Piercy
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
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
I said, I like my life. If I have to give it back, if they take it from me, let me only not feel I wasted any, let me not feel I forgot to love anyone I meant to love, that I forgot to give what I held in my hands, that I forgot to do some little piece of the work that wanted to come through.
Marge Piercy
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
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
Marge Piercy
It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
Marge Piercy
Shared laughter is erotic too. (Marge Piercy)
i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people.
Marge Piercy
We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
Marge Piercy
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Marge Piercy
Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
Marge Piercy
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
Marge Piercy
Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.
Marge Piercy