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title: "2 Best gift Quotes By Marge Piercy"
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> [One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians. Because when you look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/one-of-the-best-gifts-you-can-give-a-poet-is-to-present-them-with/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

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> [The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/the-best-gift-you-can-give-is-a-hug-one-size-fits-all-and-no-one-ever/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

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## More by Marge Piercy

> [Shared laughter is erotic too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/shared-laughter-is-erotic-too/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

> [Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/work-is-its-own-cure-you-have-to-like-it-better-than-being-loved/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

> [The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/the-anger-of-the-weak-never-goes-away-professor-it-just-gets-a-little/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

> [“The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/the-people-i-love-the-best-jump-into-work-head-first-without-dallying/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

> [Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/every-poet-has-a-certain-amount-of-stuff-that-s-what-you-draw-from/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

> [the body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/the-body-is-simple-as-a-turtle-and-straight-as-a-dog-the-body-cannot/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

> [We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/we-must-shine-with-hope-stained-glass-windows-that-shape-light-into/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

> [Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/remember-that-every-son-had-a-mother-whose-beloved-son-he-was-and/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

> [We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/we-live-in-a-media-soup-and-are-constantly-being-programmed-or-are/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

> [The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/the-moon-is-always-female-and-so-am-i-although-often-in-the-vale-of/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

> [Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/sometimes-when-a-character-in-a-novel-is-difficult-for-me-to-enter-i/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

> [Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/doorways-are-sacred-to-women-for-we-are-the-doorways-of-life-and-we/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

> [“Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/writing-sometimes-feels-frivolous-and-sometimes-sacred-but-memory-is/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

> [The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/the-work-of-the-world-is-common-as-mud-botched-it-smears-the-hands/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

> [We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marge-piercy/we-re-herded-into-schools-and-terrified-into-behaving-taught-how-we/)

[Marge Piercy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marge-piercy/)

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