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
listened listening time
It you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening
yams brass curry
In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass,
time connections made
Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
mistake good-friend thinking
Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.
doorways sacred
Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.
strength dark fire
You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire.
cures being-loved
Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
snakes two dancing
The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round and about and upside down, dancing with it a kind of bolero of two snakes twisting and coiling, until the poem has found its right and proper shape.
slim diets dies
On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.
stubborn dirt committed
When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.
american-writer love
Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.