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

• The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Hope
  • Desert
  • Rise

• When I was younger I thought I was supposed to make everyone happy. I worked hard at it, but it never worked and people didn't appreciate it anyway. So, now I make myself happy and everyone around me is happier, too!

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Make

• For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go to the circus, beyond any question of fashion, at least one or two times a year-I am not speaking here to the real enthusiasts, they know better than I what they have to do.

  

  Adrienne Monnier
  • Real
  • Fashion
  • Circus

• 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.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Humanity
  • Journey
  • Birth

• Because we were twins, we clung to each other. Because we were sisters, we depended on each other. Because we were family, we did not let go.

  

  Eva Mozes Kor
  • Family
  • Sisters
  • Twins

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

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Twins
  • Womb