"The work of the world is common as…" — Marge Piercy
"The work of the world is common as mud."
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60 Quotes by Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy has 60 quotes on this site.
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A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she…
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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
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The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you…
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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use…
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Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never…
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Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved…
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It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
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Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
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If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
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Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
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Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and…
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More Common Quotes
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
— Aristotle
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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and…
— Karen Armstrong
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
— Matthew Arnold
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These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other…
— William Henry Ashley
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
— Marcus Aurelius
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a…
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
— Walter Bagehot
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I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire…
— Stephen Baldwin
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