Marge Piercy - Woman Quotes

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A strong woman is determined
To do something that others are determined not to be done.

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Fear of rape is a cold wind blowing
all of the time on a woman's hunched back.

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In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass,

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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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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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You called me bad and I posed like a gutter
queen in a dress sewn of knives.
All I feared was being stuck in a box
with a lid. A good woman appeared to me
indistinguishable from a dead one
except that she worked all the time.

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A woman and a Jew, sometimes more
of a contradiction than I can sweat out,
yet finally the intersection that is both
collision and fusion, stone and seed.

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