Marge Piercy Quotes

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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…
• Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
• The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.
• Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
• The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were…
• Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.
• Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
• It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
• Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
• If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
• Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
• Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so…
• Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
• Shared laughter is erotic too.
• Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.
• You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I,…
• It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again…
• We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.
• My idea of Hell is to be young again.
• If what we change does not change us we are playing with blocks.

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