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Marge Piercy

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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


#being #better #cure #fact #fire

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


— Marge Piercy


#utopia #imagination

Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.


— Marge Piercy


#change

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


— Marge Piercy


#gift #life #love #love is #second

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


— Marge Piercy


#change

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


— Marge Piercy


#liked #love #may #you #yourself

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


— Marge Piercy


#strength #twins #weakness #womb

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.


— Marge Piercy


#dinner #incompetence #war

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


— Marge Piercy


#determined #done #others #something #strong

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


#blanket #bohemian #cloak #considered #fan






About Marge Piercy






Did you know about Marge Piercy?

She lives in Wellfleet on Cape Cod Massachusetts with her husband Ira Wood. Works


Novels
Going Down Fast 1969
Dance The Eagle To Sleep 1970
Small Changes 1973
Woman on the Edge of Time 1976
The High Cost of Living 1978
Vida 1980
Braided Lives 1982
Fly Away Home 1985
Gone To Soldiers 1988
Summer People 1989
He She And It (aka Body of Glass) 1991
The Longings of Women 1994
City of Darkness City of Light 1996
Storm Tide (novel)|Storm Tide 1998 (with Ira Wood)
Three Women 1999
The Third Child 2003
Sex Wars 2005


Poetry collections
Breaking Camp 1968
Hard Loving 1969
4-Telling ( with Emmett Jarrett Dick Lourie Robert Hershon) 1971
To Be of Use 1973
Living in the Open 1976
The Twelve-Spoked Wheel Flashing 1978
The Moon is Always Female 1980
Circles on the Water Selected Poems 1982
Stone Paper Knife 1983
My Mother's Body 1985
Available Light 1988
Early Ripening: American Women's Poetry Now (ed. Piercy's poetry tends to be highly personal free verse and often addresses the same concern with feminist and social issues.

Marge Piercy (born March 31 1936) is an American poet novelist and social activist.

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