Marge Piercy Quotes
Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives that we might walk through these gates upright. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Freedom is our real abundance.
Marge Piercy
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
Carl Van Vechten
I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
Malcolm McDowell
I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
Xun Kuang
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
Ferran Adria
Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
Laura Benanti
Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
Kabir Bedi
There are a lot of things I do that I don't want to, but I have to. It's truly an emotional need for me to perform.
Elaine Stritch
There's such a fine line between defeat and losing.
Gary Newbon
The dominant question for us with regard to literature has become, 'What does this have to do with me, with life as I know it?' That's the question answered by all these books about how Proust was actually a neuroscientist or how Proust can teach you emotional intelligence.
Elif Batuman
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
Martin Cruz Smith
Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives that we might walk through these gates upright. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Freedom is our real abundance.
Marge Piercy
