Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy
Marge Piercyis an American poet, novelist, and social activist. Piercy is the author of Woman on the Edge of Time; He, She and It, which won the 1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award; and Gone to Soldiers, a New York Times Best Seller and sweeping historical novel set during World War II...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth31 March 1936
CountryUnited States of America
men world amputation
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
ideas perfection grace
A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
happiness strong work
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
baby kids thinking
Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.
mother son beloved
Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
mother memories moving
Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.
real writing fire
The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
yams brass curry
In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass,
depressing people tree
i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people
way great-men fractions
There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
justice bread and-love
There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.
dream eye artist
Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
hate evil mind
Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.
religious holiday years
Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.