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I said, I like my life. If I
have to give it back, if they
take it from me, let me only
not feel I wasted any, let me
not feel I forgot to love anyone
I meant to love, that I forgot
to give what I held in my hands,
that I forgot to do some little
piece of the work that wanted
to come through.
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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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I find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people
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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.
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What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
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I write to change consciousness, to reach those people who don't agree already. Cultural work is one of the most effective ways of reaching people. If you don't support alternate ways of imagining things, people aren't going to be able to imagine a better world.
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No, It's not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. Sometimes I suspect that those who are running things might grow addicted to power. Secrecy's essential in wartime, but once in place, will it ever be removed?
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We admire predators — panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.
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Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human.... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.
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Age
has gutted me to rubbing bones
knotted up in a leather sack.
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Moments
of sinking my teeth
into now like a hungry fox:
never otherwise
am I so cruel;
never otherwise
so happy.
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Memory's a freakish bank
where embarrassing treasures
still draw interest.
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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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You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire.
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We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
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The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.
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Despair is the worst betrayal, the coldest seduction:
to believe at last that the enemy will prevail.
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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Work is its own cure. You have to
like it better than being loved.
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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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One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way — professionally.
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Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
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Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
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Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
Marge Piercy
Born:
March 31, 1936
(age 88)
Bio:
Marge Piercy is 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.
Known for:
Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)
He, She and It (1991)
Gone to Soldiers (1987)
The Longing of Woman (1994)
Sex Wars (2005)
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