Marge Piercy Quotes

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

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  Love, Life, Empathy

  Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.685, Open Road Media

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• We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.

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  Inspiring, Dancing, Doorways

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• We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us.

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  Glasses, Light, Icons

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• I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.

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  Giving, Choices, Mind

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• Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen:
  reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in.
  This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always,
  for every gardener knows that after the digging, after
  the planting,
  after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.

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  Long, Growth, Digging

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.128, Knopf

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

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  Strength, Inspiring, Strong Women

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.76, Knopf

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

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  Doorways, Sacred

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.136, Knopf

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• The powerful don't make revolutions

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  Powerful, Revolution

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• Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.

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  Energy, Source, Energy Sources

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.119, Knopf

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

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  Spring, Sleep, Waiting

  1983 Stone, Paper, Knife,'Stone, Paper, Knife'.

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

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  Friendship, Giving, Hug

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• Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?

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  Lying, People, Choices

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.

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  Life, May, Like You

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.128, Knopf

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• There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.

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  Justice, And Love, Bread

  Marge Piercy (2013). “The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme”, p.196, Knopf

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

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  Change, History, Doubt

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• We are trying to live
  as if we were an experiment
  conducted by the future

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  Trying, Experiments, Ifs

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.161, Knopf

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• Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives that we might walk through these gates upright. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Freedom is our real abundance.

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  Real, Struggle, Taken

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• Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.

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  Stuff, Pool, Poet

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.

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  Strong Women, Blue, Oxygen

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.77, Knopf

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

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  Women, People, Firsts

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.106, Knopf

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• It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

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  Love, Life, Sex

  Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.371, Open Road Media

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

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  Time, Empathy, Understanding

  Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.317, Open Road Media

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• Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms.

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  Doors, Hands, Rooms

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.55, Knopf

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

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  Weakness, Twins, Womb

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.268, Knopf

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• When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.

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  Best Love, Chocolate, Milk

  Marge Piercy (2012). “Vida”, p.114, PM Press

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