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
“From the time I arrived on the Cape, one of the things I chose explicitly was to put my writing first. Everything… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough… — 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
“Don't be ridiculous! You waste less time than anyone I know.' 'You don't know, sweetie. For years I've had down days. Days… — 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
We are trying to live as if we were an experiment conducted by the future — 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
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The sense of being Jewish never left me, but when my grandmother died, I rebelled against Judaism as I knew it then,… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen: reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in. This is how we… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar… — 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
