One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our… — 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
Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are… — 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
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
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
