Accounts Quote by Marge Piercy

“We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.”

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

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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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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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