"Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what……" — Marge Piercy
"Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment."
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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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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
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