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
powerful revolution
The powerful don't make revolutions
eye angel brain
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.
stars butterfly rocks
One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians. Because when you look at anything long enough to be able to identify it, you see far more clearly and you make a tiny beginning at understanding the life, the place, the history of that bird or rock or mammal.
imagine utopia knows
We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
hands purple erotic
Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh....
daughter mother novel
I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
men world amputation
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
ideas perfection grace
A 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.
happiness strong work
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
baby kids thinking
Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.
mother son beloved
Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
mother memories moving
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.
real writing fire
The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
yams brass curry
In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass,