Marge Piercy Quotes

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

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• The simple things in life make me very happy.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Simple

• The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Need
  • Sympathy

• 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.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Forever

• If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Cool

• People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Money
  • Start

• But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Eric Close
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• 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.

  

  James Gray
  • Why
  • Attention

• I don't go for the flash and panache.

  

  Paul Walker

• I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.

  

  Jim Crace

• I am a movie star.

  

  Jayne Mansfield
  • Movie
  • Star

• 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.

  

  Chris Crutcher
  • School
  • Done
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Pierre Schaeffer
  • Work
  • Live
  • Age

• Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Nature

• And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • People
  • Respect

• 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.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Way
  • Blood
  • Self-Conscious

• Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Up
  • To Be
  • Loneliness

• Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Nadine Dorries

• We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as the lie.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Moments
  • Western
  • Orchestrate

• The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I believe we must choose the path to faith, freedom and individual liberty. It starts with us, here today, now, Working together, with God's favor, we can save the America that we love.

  

  T.W. Shannon
  • God
  • Believe
  • America

• Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.

  

  Alveda King
  • Together
  • Black
  • Community

• The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.

  

  Chinmayananda Saraswati
  • Looks
  • Greater
  • Investing

• My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Twins
  • Womb