Marge Piercy Quotes

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

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• To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

  

  Tacitus
  • May
  • Show
  • Resentment

• When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Soul
  • Culture
  • Spiritual

• I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Problem
  • Yourself
  • Calm

• I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Love
  • True
  • Honor

• I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nice

• It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Easy
  • Health care
  • Debate

• I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.

  

  Halsey
  • Good
  • Very
  • Singer

• The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Together
  • Leadership

• 'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Law
  • Quality

• Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Born
  • Being
  • Privilege

• I think it is not necessary at this time to put forth a grand vision such as an East Asian Community. What we must do before that is create scenarios for Japan's response in case of a serious territorial incident.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Time
  • Community
  • Serious

• I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Cook
  • How

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Test
  • Testing

• I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Family
  • Very
  • Roots

• I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Way
  • Doing

• There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Reading
  • Moment
  • Pretending

• I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Star

• Funding for faith-based charities should be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.

  

  Eugene Rivers
  • Religion
  • Guilty
  • Performance

• I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Leader
  • Role
  • Prison

• Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities.

  

  Sheherazade Goldsmith
  • Country
  • War
  • Community

• I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Guilty
  • Writer