Author: Marge Piercy

Quotes

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

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

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

- Marge Piercy

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

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

- Marge Piercy

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

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

- 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

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.

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

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

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

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

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