Marge Piercy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
-
I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
-
I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
-
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
-
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
-
I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
-
Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
-
To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.
-
I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
-
I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
-
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
-
Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
-
I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
-
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
-
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
-
Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
-
I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
-
There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.
-
Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.
-
I want to do all roles. The sky's the limit.
-
The replenishing thing that comes with a nap - you end up with two mornings in a day.
-
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-
The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.
-
In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.
