Marge Piercy Quotes

"All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: Women, World)

"Burning dinner is not incompetence but war."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: War, Incompetence)

"If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: Time, Listening, Want)

"It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: Sex, Pleasure)

"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: Life, Love, First, Understanding)

"A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: Woman)

"Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: Love, May)

"Never doubt that you can change history. You already have."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: Change, History, Doubt)

"Shared laughter is erotic too."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: Laughter)

"Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: Marriage, People, Cats)

"The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: Work, Water)

"The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: Work, Talent, Being, Cure, Fact, Fire, Invention, Writer)

"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
(Related: Work, Eye)

"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
(Related: Love, Hair, May, Security)