Marge Piercy Quotes
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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New York is my home.
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
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College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
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Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
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For some reason little Laura Deal continued to be Abbie's favorite grandchild. The little girl answered Abbie's deep love for her with an affection equally sincere,—or perhaps it was the other way. Perhaps the fact that Laura held such admiration for her grandnmother enkindled its answer in Abbie's heart. From the time Laura was five she had brought her grandmother little stories of her own composition. Abbie had them all in safe keeping, just as she had everything else which had ever come into her possession.
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There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.
