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... probably all of the women in this book are working to make part of the same quilt to keep us from freezing to death in a world that grows harsher and bleaker—where male is the norm and the id...
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. As quoted in Mountain Moving Day, by Elaine Gill (1973).
"This book" was a fe...
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Loving feels lonely in a violent world,
irrelevant to people burning like last year's weed
with bellies distended, with fish throats agape
and flesh melting down to glue.
We can no...
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. "Community," lines 1-6 (1969).
Referring to television and photographic image...
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''Remember that every son had a mother
whose beloved son he was,
and every woman had a mother
whose beloved son she wasn't.''
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Marge Piercy (20th century), U.S. writer. "Doing It Differently," Circles on the Water (1892).
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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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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet and novelist. "For the Young Who Want To," lines 31-36 (1980).
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this quilt might be
the only perfect artifact a woman
would ever see, yet she did not doubt
what we had forgotten, that out of her
potatoes and colic, sawdust and blood
she co...
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. "Looking at Quilts," lines 44-49 (1976).
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''This life is a war we are not yet
winning for our daughters' children.
Don't do your enemies' work for them.
Finish your own.''
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. "Memo To: ... Subject:," lines 53-56 (1980).
Directed to "female poets" and n...
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''Rape fattens on the fantasies of the normal male
like a maggot in garbage.''
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. "Rape Poem," lines 18-19 (1976).
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''A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces
More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne.
More commonly it wheezes and tips over.''
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. "Rough Times," lines 20-22 (1976).
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''We are trying to live
as if we were an experiment
conducted by the future''
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. "Rough Times," lines 1-3 (1976).
On women's trying to construct lives that br...
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This is the 184th Demonstration.
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the...
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936), U.S. poet, novelist, and political activist. "The 184th Demonstration," lines 1, 27-31 (1968).
On the countless demonstrat...
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The Cat's Song
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Mine, says the cat, putting out his paw of darkness.
My lover, my friend, my slave, my toy, says
the cat making on your chest his gesture of drawing
milk from his mother's forgotten breasts.
Let us walk in the woods, says the cat.
I'll teach you to read the tabloid of scents,
to fade into shadow, wait like a trap, to hunt.
Now I lay this plump warm mouse on your mat.
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