Marge Piercy Quotes

Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.

Marge Piercy

Quotes to Explore

I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

Ireland Baldwin
- People
- Different
- School
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

Ma Jian
- People
- History
- Moral
I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

Sam Shepard
- Up
- Character
- Think
People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.

Yelawolf
- People
- Up
- You
I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.

M. J. Rose
- Career
- Past
- Present
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

N. Scott Momaday
- Land
- Landscape
- Isolation