Marge Piercy Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

  Marge Piercy

  War, Burning, Dinner

  1983 Stone, Paper, Knife,'What's that smell in the kitchen?'

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

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  Sex, War, Play

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives”, p.66, PM Press

• 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.

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  Daughter, Perseverance, Children

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.115, Knopf

• I have no connections here; only gusty collisions,
  rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse.
  ...
  I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn,
  a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement.
  People want to push the buttons and see me glow.

  Marge Piercy

  Travel, Real, War

• The politics of the exile are fever,
  revenge, daydream,
  theater of the aging convalescent.
  You wait in the wings and rehearse.
  You wait and wait.

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  Revenge, War, Wings

• Depressions, local and larger strikes, boom times, wars, repressions, all impact a life as do epidemics such as AIDS and pollution that may take years off a person's life. We all, whether we like it or not and whether we acknowledge it or not, are impacted by the racial attitudes we carry within us, and experience in some form every time we turn on the television, the radio, go to a movie, read a magazine or a newspaper, or walk down the street.

  Marge Piercy

  Attitude, War, Epidemics

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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