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Marge Piercy
American
Writer
About the author
My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
Marge Piercy,
American
Writer
#Strength
#Weakness
#Twins
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
Marge Piercy,
American
Writer
#World
#Women
Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
Marge Piercy,
American
Writer
#War
#Incompetence
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
Marge Piercy,
American
Writer
#Want
#Time
#Listening
It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
Marge Piercy,
American
Writer
#Pleasure
#Sex
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
Marge Piercy,
American
Writer
#Life
#Love
#First
#Understanding
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
Marge Piercy,
American
Writer
#Woman
Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.
Marge Piercy,
American
Writer
#Love
#May
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Marge Piercy,
American
Writer
#History
#Change
#Doubt
Shared laughter is erotic too.
Marge Piercy,
American
Writer
#Laughter
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
Marge Piercy,
American
Writer
#People
#Marriage
#Cats
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Marge Piercy,
American
Writer
#Work
#Water
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.
Marge Piercy,
American
Writer
#Work
#Being
#Writer
#Talent
#Invention
#Fact
#Cure
#Fire
When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.
Marge Piercy,
American
Writer
#Eye
#Work
Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.
Marge Piercy,
American
Writer
#Love
#Security
#May
#Hair