With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as explaining cats in general. I simply viewed the cats I have known as characters in my… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children. Don't do your enemies' work for them. Finish… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Her life seemed to her a great engineering work scarcely begun. Lately more excavation than construction had occurred. She had lost a… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let me onlynot feel I… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
If I observe my cats carefully, it is partly because I observe everyone I deal with as carefully as I can and… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Depressions, local and larger strikes, boom times, wars, repressions, all impact a life as do epidemics such as AIDS and pollution that… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars,… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.” — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Never in your life have you been helpless—under somebody’s heel. You never lived where your enemies held power over you, power to… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction.… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“I said, I like my life. If I have to give it back, if they take it from me, let me not… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
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… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
the body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
