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'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
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Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.
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There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.