Marge Piercy Short Quotes

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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.

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It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

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The moment shimmered like a glass of full-bodied wine.

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

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Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.

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When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.

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I walk under the sickle moon
sharpened and new and whistling.

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Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.

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If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.

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If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

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If what we change does not change us
we are playing with blocks.

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Age
has gutted me to rubbing bones
knotted up in a leather sack.

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Work is its own cure. You have to
like it better than being loved.

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The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.

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

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Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.

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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.

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

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The body is simple as a turtle
and straight as a dog:
the body cannot lie.

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Memory's a freakish bank
where embarrassing treasures
still draw interest.

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The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

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We are trying to live
as if we were an experiment
conducted by the future

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

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Regret is a damp wind
off the used car lot
where most of our peers came to rest.

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All women are misfits, I think; we do not fit into this world without amputations.

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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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We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

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

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

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