Marge Piercy Quotes
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I like communicating with cats. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.
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I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.
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Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.
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Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can't bless it, get ready to make it new.
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Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a little winter no spring can melt.
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Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.
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Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
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On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.
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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
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Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.
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I think we validate our lives through our actions.
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Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
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Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.
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Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
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It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.
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Only when we break the mirror and climb into our vision, only when we are the wind together streaming and singing, only in the dream we become with our bones for spears, we are real at last and wake.
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If what we change does not change us we are playing with blocks.
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We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
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We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.
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Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel.
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My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.
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The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.
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History is a game played backwards only.
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The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.