Best Marge Piercy Quotes
- When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting… All
- Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a… Breath
- Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe… Blackberries
- I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel. Daughter
- All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. All
- Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of… All
- I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint. Battleships
- A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and… Acne
- What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof. Coat
- The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows. Best
- On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim. Day
- Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out. Art
- Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk. Bear
- I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let me onlynot feel I wasted any, let… Any
- Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the… Air
- A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done. Determined
- Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. Accepting Reality
- My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb. Inspirational
- The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. Business
- The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You… Better
- In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass, Bottled
- Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we… Attention
- i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people Admire
- There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love. Bread
- A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly… Action