Marge Piercy Quotes
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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In fashion design, you can divide people into two groups. You have people who come with an aesthetic that is there forever, even if it evolves. Then you have people I call 'jumpers.' One season it can be this; the next season it's completely something else. I always knew I am more of a jumper.
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If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'
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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
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But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.
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The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.
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It's very difficult to put your finger on why a certain actor or actress will capture your attention, and you'll think they're right for a role. There's an essence to a person.
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I don't go for the flash and panache.
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I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.
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I am a movie star.
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In 2004, one of my books, 'Whale Talk,' was chosen as an all-school read in Fowlerville, Michigan, a rural town not far from Detroit. They had done what I thought was a brilliant and innovative thing: decided to teach the book in every discipline, sophomores through seniors.
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We live in an age dominated by the problem of limits. We are witnessing the end of progress. We have reached the saturation point. Are we going beyond these limits? Are we going to take the risk? There is much work to do to maintain the planet.
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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.
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And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.
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The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.
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Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.
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Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction.
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Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren't any right people.
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I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
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The underworld, the old world, is the womb that gave birth to humanity. The journey from under the earth is the journey from ignorance to wisdom.
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My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
