The price of seeing is silence. Marge Piercy More Quotes by Marge Piercy More Quotes From Marge Piercy Every baby born Marge Piercy painbabychildren You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire. Marge Piercy strengthfiredark Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside. Marge Piercy hamadversitycountry Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood. Marge Piercy icewindblood Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out. Marge Piercy mirrorsgamesart On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim. Marge Piercy slimdiesdiets I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel. Marge Piercy noveldaughtermother the body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie. Marge Piercy simpledoglying Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh. Marge Piercy purpleerotichands Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a little winter no spring can melt. Marge Piercy winespringsweet The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals. Marge Piercy healthyclassfun When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites. Marge Piercy angeleyebrain Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink. Marge Piercy energy-sourcessourceenergy Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket. Marge Piercy hairlovelong It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again. Marge Piercy hurtletting-golove Now that I am in my forties, she [my mother] tells me I'm beautiful; now that I am in my forties, she sends me presents and we have the long, personal and even remarkably honest phone calls I always wanted so intensely I forbade myself to imagine them. How strange. Perhaps Shaw was correct and if we lived to be several hundred years old, we would finally work it all out. I am deeply grateful. With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life. Marge Piercy gratefulmotherbeautiful My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl. Marge Piercy grandmotherimportantreligious I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy. Marge Piercy writingbookchildren Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's. Marge Piercy economiccircumstanceslife-is I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not come from people who had many options in their lives or many choices open to them. I was a girl in a family in which women were, as in society at large, very much second-class citizens. I did not see why I should accept these forced limitations without a fight. Being free to make my own choices thus became very important to me at an early age. Marge Piercy girlfightingclass
