Marge Piercy Quotes
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I wasn't afraid of being poor; I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to anything else.
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Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
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If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
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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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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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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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With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
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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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The price of seeing is silence.