“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding, the third”
― Marge Piercy, quote from Gone to Soldiers
“Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.”
― Marge Piercy, quote from Gone to Soldiers
“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, quote from Gone to Soldiers
“Her life seemed to her a great engineering work scarcely begun. Lately more excavation than construction had occurred. She had lost a sense of her own invincibility. In that way she was no longer archetypically American.”
― Marge Piercy, quote from Gone to Soldiers
“No, It's not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. Sometimes I suspect that those who are running things might grow addicted to power. Secrecy's essential in wartime, but once in place, will it ever be removed?”
― Marge Piercy, quote from Gone to Soldiers
“Huddled in her mink in the Kansas City airport, she had a vision of women writing about sex as openly as male writers, but quite, quite differently. Some women would treat sex much as men did,as conquest, as adventure--in a way as McCarthy had. Other women would treat female sexuality far less romantically then men who did not consider themselves romantics, like Hemingway, were wont to. The earth would not move, no, there would be more biology and less theatrics. Women had less ego involvement in sex than men did, but far more at stake economically.”
― Marge Piercy, quote from Gone to Soldiers
“Finally something besides infatuation had focused him. He was no longer merely flowing water.”
― Marge Piercy, quote from Gone to Soldiers
“He will make any woman happy a little while and then unhappy a long while.”
― Marge Piercy, quote from Gone to Soldiers
“True goodness is like water. Water helps the ten thousand things without itself striving. Water flows down into the low places men despise, for water is in the Way,”
― Marge Piercy, quote from Gone to Soldiers
“she had ordered a turkey from the Garfinkles, who raised them.”
― Marge Piercy, quote from Gone to Soldiers
Marge Piercy
Born place: in Detroit, Michigan, The United States
Born date March 31, 1936
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“Better to head off into the unknown than stay here, where death was most certain”
― James Rollins, quote from The Bone Labyrinth
“Everything has a past, a voice, existed at some point, even things as small and seemingly meaningless as a house in a huge suburb. It’s a house like every other house… but at some point a family lived there, made it theirs, made it important. When people forget that history, that somebody at some point thought the house mattered, it just becomes an empty pile of nailed wood and brick and concrete that gets torn down for some strip mall or chain store to take its place… and that’s what happens more and more now, everything is disposable, always replaced with no thought at all. That’s where things get lost, memories get lost, humanity slips through the cracks, because when we all fail to pay attention to the things that make up our lives, we’re no longer human at all, not really.”
― Rebecca McNutt, quote from Smog City
“He read Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes, and Niccolò Machiavelli.”
― quote from More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
“Your Cat Has More Self Esteem Than I Do
There are no billboards for cats
advertising feline plastic surgery
feline acne gels
feline gastric bands
feline face-lifts.
There are no commercials about
feline makeup
feline sex toys
feline fashion.
There are porn movies with cats,
but no cats watch them.”
― A.S. King, quote from I Crawl Through It
“We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world's problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by substituting new leaders for the old.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, quote from The First and Last Freedom
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