Marge Piercy - Life Quotes

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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

Marge Piercy

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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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.

Marge Piercy

Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.

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Life on the streets killed you slow, but sometimes people or the weather saw that it happened a lot faster.

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This life is a war we are not yet
winning for our daughters' children.
Don't do your enemies' work for them.
Finish your own.

Marge Piercy

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

Marge Piercy