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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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'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.
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Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
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I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
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When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.
