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

• I must plead guilty as any of escaping into immediate busywork to keep from the far harder task of peering into a dim future, which, of course, should be one of a diplomat's main duties.

  

  Dean Acheson
  • Future
  • Guilty

• I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writer
  • Afraid
  • Satisfaction

• For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Time
  • Did
  • Transportation

• Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Learn
  • Teach

• A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Trying

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

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Guilty
  • Writer