Quotes by Marge Piercy

About Marge Piercy:

Marge Piercy is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. Piercy is the author of Woman on the Edge of Time, considered a classic of utopian "speculative" science fiction as well as a feminist classic; and Gone to Soldiers, a New York Times Best Seller and a sweeping historical novel set during World War II.
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The societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep ...

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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.

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No, It's not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. Sometimes I suspect that those who are running things might grow addicted to power. Secrecy's essential in wartime, but once in place, will it ever be r...

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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 officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising...

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Huddled in her mink in the Kansas City airport, she had a vision of women writing about sex as openly as male writers, but quite, quite differently. Some women would treat sex much as men did,as conquest, as adventure--in a way as McCarthy had. Other...

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Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, . Remember ...

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In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that w...

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If I die this instant will you be more content with the morning news? Will your coffee taste better? I am not your fate. I am not your government…I am not your mother, not your father or your nightmare or your health. I am not a fence, not a wall. ...

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Never in your life have you been helpless—under somebody’s heel. You never lived where your enemies held power over you, power to run your life or wipe it out. You can’t understand. That’s how come you stand there feeding me empty slogans!”...

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We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

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Shared laughter is erotic too.

Marge Piercy

If what we change does not change us, we are playing with blocks.

Marge Piercy

A little man in a threadbare coat spoke up for the poor as if he really knew what he was talking about. The women with the flowers threw them down for him. “That’s Robert Speer,” one said. “Something like that. He’s our man.

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An 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.

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Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

Marge Piercy

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

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Strength quotes by Marge Piercy, UberQuotes

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

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My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

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Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

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Author Bio

  • NameMarge Piercy
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist and poet
  • BornMarch 31, 1936
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Novelist