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The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen. — Marge Piercy

Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen. — Marge Piercy

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

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work. — Marge Piercy

I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty. — Marge Piercy

With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life. — Marge Piercy

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry,
a yam of a woman of butter and brass, — Marge Piercy

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel. — Marge Piercy

Thinking about tracking ... Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your social
class was established for the rest of your life. — Marge Piercy

Santa's Little Helper
Isn't it ironic that Homer calls his pet
the same name Marge calls his penis? — Beryl Dov

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. — Marge Piercy

What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof. — Marge Piercy

Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink. — Marge Piercy

Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck. — Marge Piercy

When I tell you "forever", I mean it. — Marge Baylin

Los Angeles: city that was nothing but a slot machine dispensing plastic toys. — 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. — Marge Piercy

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding, the third — Marge Piercy

The price of seeing is silence. — Marge Piercy

The body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie. — Marge Piercy

She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately. — Marge Piercy

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder. — Matt Groening

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover. — Marge Piercy

Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work. — Marge Piercy

I'm not a feminist. — Marge Simon

Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground — Marge Piercy

I am my mother's daughter, ... I am her only novel. — Marge Piercy

I tend toward the unnatural, sometimes with supernatural undertones or such. — Marge Simon

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use. — Marge Piercy

Once upon a time, you were everything to me..and I was everything to you. — Marge Baylin

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing. — Marge Piercy

History is a game played backwards only. — Marge Piercy

The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it. — Marge Piercy

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

It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth. — Marge Piercy

We are trying to live
as if we were an experiment
conducted by the future — Marge Piercy

It's only money, honey. — Marge Schott

Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside. — Marge Piercy

The dog lives here, Pete. You're just visiting. — Marge Schott

Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out. — Marge Piercy

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done — Marge Piercy

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst. — Marge Kennedy

When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed. — Marge Piercy

I don't apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn't - I didn't continue what wasn't pleasant. — Marge Piercy

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

Her face collapsed like a bad poem — Marge Simon

If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play. — Marge Piercy

It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles ... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again. — Marge Piercy

She felt pride and shame wash through her. Mala, the woman who acted. To thrust herself forward into the world. — Marge Piercy

Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind. — Marge Piercy

Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far. — Marge Schott

I think we validate our lives through our actions. — Marge Piercy

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

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war. — Marge Piercy

Shared laughter is erotic too. — Marge Piercy

Charlie and I were never blessed with children. — Marge Schott

An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over. — Marge Piercy

Hate them more than you hate yourself, and you'll stay free! — Marge Piercy

When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate. — Marge Piercy

All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. — Marge Piercy

This life is a war we are not yet
winning for our daughters' children.
Don't do your enemies' work for them.
Finish your own. — Marge Piercy

Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about. — Marge Piercy

Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything. — Marge Kennedy

Economy is the bone, politics is the flesh,
watch who they beat and who they eat. — Marge Piercy

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break. — Marge Piercy

I like communicating with cats. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals. — Marge Piercy

Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream. — Marge Piercy

On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim. — Marge Piercy

I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right. — Marge Piercy

The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows. — Marge Piercy

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name. — Marge Schott

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do. — Marge Piercy

Good will starts out fat and sweet
as tub butter and turns slowly rancid.
It must be made again daily
if we want it fresh. — Marge Piercy

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't. — Marge Piercy

I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little. — Nancy Cartwright

The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals. — Marge Piercy

The powerful don't make revolutions — Marge Piercy

Finally something besides infatuation had focused him. He was no longer merely flowing water. — Marge Piercy

My aunt Marge has been so ill for so long that we've started to call her I can't believe she's not better — Milton Jones

They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use. — Marge Piercy

I dream therefore I am. - Marge to her young son Mikee — Michael Jay

Bernie Saunders is like a fly buzzing around a bowl of rotten fruit. Long hail this fly! — Marge Simon

Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. — Marge Piercy

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

My idea of Hell is to be young again. — Marge Piercy

Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined. — Marge Piercy

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

We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire. — Marge Piercy

Never let them know who you really are, how you live, and that you can observe and think, that was her motto. — Marge Piercy

they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman. — Marge Piercy

I find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people — Marge Piercy

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

Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel. — Marge Piercy

There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love. — Marge Piercy

I don't like the designated hitter. A guy who plays should be able to catch and hit. — Marge Schott

Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family. — Homer

Like species, couples die out or evolve. — Marge Piercy

Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk. — Marge Piercy

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

I require a hierarchy of priorities after protecting Shira and Malkah and the small felines. — Marge Piercy