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
finish life war winning work
This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children./ Don't do your enemies' work for them./ Finish your own.
listening want should
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
spring sleep waiting
Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.
loyalty party political
The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.
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.
sleep cat people
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
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.
night anxiety scared
Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.
laughter erotic
Shared laughter is erotic too.
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.