"On this twelfth day of my diet I……" — Marge Piercy
"On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim."
—
Marge Piercy
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
60 Quotes by Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy has 60 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she…
-
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
-
The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you…
-
Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
-
The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use…
-
Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never…
-
Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved…
-
It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
-
Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
-
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
-
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
-
Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and…
See all 60 quotes by Marge Piercy »
More Day Quotes
This quote is filed under Day Quotes,
one of 30,562 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
— Hannah Arendt
-
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going…
— Alexis Arguello
-
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short…
— Aristotle
-
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
— Aristotle
-
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you…
— Julian Assange
-
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
— Paul Auster
-
I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
— Paul Auster
-
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
See all 30,562 Day Quotes »