Marge Piercy Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• 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

  Mother, Son, Beloved

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.113, Knopf

• Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can't bless it, get ready to make it new.

  Marge Piercy

  Mother, Children, Father

  Marge Piercy (2013). “The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme”, p.12, Knopf

• Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.

  Marge Piercy

  Mother, Memories, Husband

• Now that I am in my forties, she [my mother] tells me I'm beautiful; now that I am in my forties, she sends me presents and we have the long, personal and even remarkably honest phone calls I always wanted so intensely I forbade myself to imagine them. How strange. Perhaps Shaw was correct and if we lived to be several hundred years old, we would finally work it all out. I am deeply grateful. With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.

  Marge Piercy

  Beautiful, Mother, Grateful

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives: A Novel”, p.418, PM Press

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

  Marge Piercy

  Mother, Remember, Quarrels

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives”, p.8, PM Press

• Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.

  Marge Piercy

  Mother, Memories, Moving

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

• With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.

  Marge Piercy

  Mother, Wooing

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives: A Novel”, p.418, PM Press

• I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.

  Marge Piercy

  Daughter, Mother, Novel

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