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• Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.

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• Art is a game only if you play at it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.

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• On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

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

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

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• Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

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• With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.

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• My idea of Hell is to be young again.

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• A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

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

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• Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

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• It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

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• Shared laughter is erotic too.

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• 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.

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

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• Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

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• Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

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Marge Piercy (25)

Birth:	31st March, 1936
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Poet

About

Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a family deeply affected by the Great Depression. She was the first in her family to attend college, studying at the University of Michigan. Winning a Hopwood Award for Poetry and Fiction enabled her to finish college and spend some time in France, and her formal schooling ended with an M.A. from Northwestern University. Her first book of poems, Breaking Camp, was published in 1968.

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