Creating Quote by Marge Piercy

“Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.”

Marge Piercy

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“The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half submerged balls. I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like…

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

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We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope…

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Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

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The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and…

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

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When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

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The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by creating marginal spaces in which they can articulate and question their identity. Radical politics thus becomes an endless mocking parody and provocation, a gradual process of reidentification in which there are not final victories and ultimate…

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