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Work Quotes by Marge Piercy
- 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…
- Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
- The work of the world is common as mud.
- 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…
- 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…
- What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
- The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
- 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…
- The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
- 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…
- Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach