Marge Piercy - People Quotes

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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.

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 find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people

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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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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

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The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.

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