Marge Piercy Quotes

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

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

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

Never in your life have you been helpless—under somebody’s heel. You never lived where your enemies ...

When will women not be compelledto view their bodies as science projects,gardens to be weeded, dogs ...

If I die this instant will you be more content with the morning news? Will your coffee taste better?...

No, It's not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. So...

Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did so...

Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of...

subject that got people aroused . . . was Who Owns America? . . . They had a chart going . . . filli...

Whenever the balance of power was unequal, there was a driver and a driven. Power was the lethal vic...

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

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

thinking about tracking. . . . Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your socialc...

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

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

People were not getting back what they wanted for their sold labor. Taxes grew and services shrank. ...

The societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we're herded into schools and...

In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble o...

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of f...

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

A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire a...

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

A little man in a threadbare coat spoke up for the poor as if he really knew what he was talking abo...

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

Live as if you like yourself and it may happen.

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

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

An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire ...

To Have Without Holding:Learning to love differently is hard,love with the hands wide open, lovewith...

Where do dreams come from?...they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of p...

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

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

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as ...

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

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

Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.

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