Marge Piercy

Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.

— Marge Piercy

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

— Marge Piercy

We are trying to live as if we were an experiment conducted by the future

— Marge Piercy

When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.

— Marge Piercy

When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.

— Marge Piercy

the body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.

— Marge Piercy

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

— Marge Piercy

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

— Marge Piercy

I never thought of myself as explaining cats in general. I simply viewed the cats I have known as characters in my…

— Marge Piercy

Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not…

— Marge Piercy

Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun,…

— Marge Piercy

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

You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and…

— Marge Piercy

I wasn't afraid of being poor; I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I…

— Marge Piercy

We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We…

— Marge Piercy

Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has…

— Marge Piercy

I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a…

— Marge Piercy

Every baby born unloved, unwanted, is a bill that will come due in twenty years with interest, an anger that must find…

— Marge Piercy

We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of…

— Marge Piercy

I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not…

— Marge Piercy

“From the time I arrived on the Cape, one of the things I chose explicitly was to put my writing first. Everything…

— Marge Piercy

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

I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction.…

— Marge Piercy

“I said, I like my life. If I have to give it back, if they take it from me, let me not…

— Marge Piercy

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

— Marge Piercy

What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

— Marge Piercy

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

— Marge Piercy

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

— Marge Piercy

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

— Marge Piercy

Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.

— Marge Piercy

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

— Marge Piercy

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass,

— Marge Piercy

If what we change does not change us we are playing with blocks.

— Marge Piercy

Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.

— Marge Piercy

The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.

— Marge Piercy

On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.

— Marge Piercy

Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes…

— Marge Piercy

“Finally something besides infatuation had focused him. He was no longer merely flowing water.”

— Marge Piercy

Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.

— Marge Piercy

There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.

— Marge Piercy