Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)

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The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger, and more interesting. The poor and the weak die with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing in the dark of the grave like the hair and the nails.

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

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We have limited resources. We plan co-operatively. We can afford to waste... nothing. You might say our – you'd say religion? – ideas make us see ourselves as partners with water, air, birds, fish trees.

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