We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual. Marge Piercy More Quotes by Marge Piercy More Quotes From Marge Piercy Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids. Marge Piercy baby kids thinking Every baby born Marge Piercy pain baby children 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 strength fire dark Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside. Marge Piercy ham adversity country 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 ice wind blood Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out. Marge Piercy mirrors games art On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim. Marge Piercy slim dies diets I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel. Marge Piercy novel daughter mother the body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie. Marge Piercy simple dog lying 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 purple erotic hands 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 wine spring sweet The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals. Marge Piercy healthy class fun 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 angel eye brain Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink. Marge Piercy energy-sources source energy 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 hair love long 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 hurt letting-go love 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 grateful mother beautiful 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 grandmother important religious 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 writing book children 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 economic circumstances life-is
