The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
About Marge Piercy
Marge Piercyis an American progressive activist, feminist, and writer. Her work includes 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 a sweeping historical novel set during World War II. Piercy’s work is rooted in her Jewish heritage, Marxist social and political activism, and feminist ideals.
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My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
American novelist and poet (born 1936)
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.
American novelist and poet (born 1936)
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
American novelist and poet (born 1936)
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
American novelist and poet (born 1936)
Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.
American novelist and poet (born 1936)
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
American novelist and poet (born 1936)
Shared laughter is erotic too.
American novelist and poet (born 1936)
It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
American novelist and poet (born 1936)
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
American novelist and poet (born 1936)
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.
American novelist and poet (born 1936)
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
American novelist and poet (born 1936)
Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
American novelist and poet (born 1936)
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.
American novelist and poet (born 1936)
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
American novelist and poet (born 1936)
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
American novelist and poet (born 1936)