Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy
Marge Piercyis an American poet, novelist, and social activist. Piercy is the author of Woman on the Edge of Time; He, She and It, which won the 1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award; and Gone to Soldiers, a New York Times Best Seller and sweeping historical novel set during World War II...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth31 March 1936
CountryUnited States of America
long growth digging
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.
life may like-you
Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
strength inspiring strong-women
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
inspiring dancing doorways
We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.
life love-is empathy
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
ideas hell young
My idea of Hell is to be young again.
understanding study
Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.
understanding study
Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.
sex school dumb
We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.