Marge Piercy Quotes
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Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
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Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
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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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I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
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When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.
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A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
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We are trying to live as if we were an experiment conducted by the future.
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A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.
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Every baby born unloved, unwanted, is a bill that will come due in twenty years with interest, an anger that must find a target, a pain that will beget pain. A decade downstream a child screams, a woman falls, a synagogue is torched, a firing squad is summoned, a button is pushed and the world burns.
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With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
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The price of seeing is silence.