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• Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.

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  Writing, Silence, Risk

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• Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.

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  Hate, Evil, Mind

  Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.237, Open Road Media

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• My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

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  Weakness, Twins, Womb

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.268, Knopf

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• We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.

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  Sex, School, Dumb

  Marge Piercy (2011). “Dance the Eagle to Sleep”, p.73, PM Press

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• Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms.

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  Doors, Hands, Rooms

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.55, Knopf

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• My idea of Hell is to be young again.

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  Ideas, Hell, Young

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives”, p.6, PM Press

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• All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.

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  Men, World, Amputation

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

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  Block, Doe, Ifs

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.85, Knopf

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• Like species, couples die out or evolve.

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  Couple, Evolve, Species

  Marge Piercy (2013). “My Mother's Body”, p.49, Knopf

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

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  Sleep, Cat, People

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• We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.

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  Sexy, Lying, Eye

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Colors Passing Through Us”, p.134, Knopf

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• Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can't bless it, get ready to make it new.

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  Mother, Children, Father

  Marge Piercy (2013). “The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme”, p.12, Knopf

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

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  Best Love, Chocolate, Milk

  Marge Piercy (2012). “Vida”, p.114, PM Press

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

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  Imagine, Utopia, Knows

  Marge Piercy (2010). “Woman on the Edge of Time”, p.334, Ballantine Books

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• Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.

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  Mother, Memories, Moving

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

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• Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.

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  Time, Healing, Connections

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.128, Knopf

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• Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.

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  Religious, Holiday, Years

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

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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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  Yams, Curry, Brass

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.96, Knopf

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• Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

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  Way, Suspense, Reader

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

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• The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

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  Glasses, Steel, Use

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.86, Knopf

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• Shared laughter is erotic too.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round and about and upside down, dancing with it a kind of bolero of two snakes twisting and coiling, until the poem has found its right and proper shape.

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  Snakes, Two, Dancing

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

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  Business, Real, Work

  "To Be of Use" l. 26 (1973)

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• Every baby born
  unloved, unwanted, is a bill that will come
  due in twenty years with interest, an anger
  that must find a target, a pain that will
  beget pain. A decade downstream a child
  screams, a woman falls, a synagogue is torched,
  a firing squad is summoned, a button
  is pushed and the world burns.

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  Baby, Children, Pain

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• The work of the world is common as mud.

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  World, Mud, Common

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.106, Knopf

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