Author: Marge Piercy

Quotes

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

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

- Marge Piercy

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

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

- Marge Piercy

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

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

- Marge Piercy

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

- Marge Piercy

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.

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

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

- Marge Piercy

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

- Marge Piercy

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

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

- Marge Piercy

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.

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

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