Marge Piercy Quotes About Grandmothers

Quotes about: Grandmothers

• Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a little winter no spring can melt.

  Marge Piercy

  Sweet, Spring, Wine

• The sense of being Jewish never left me, but when my grandmother died, I rebelled against Judaism as I knew it then, which was Orthodox. I saw the rituals, a lot of them, as very male, for a long time.

  Marge Piercy

  Grandmother, Long, Males

  "Fighting Words". Interview with Johnette Rodriguez, margepiercy.com. September 27, 2002.

• My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.

  Marge Piercy

  Religious, Grandmother, Important

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

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