“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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“The waiter brought fresh-baked bread and cheese, a bottle of sparkling water for Annabeth, and a Coke with ice for me (because I’m a barbarian).”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Demigod Diaries
“To think about failure was to invite failure.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Concrete Blonde
“No conflicting loyalties?"
"Not yet." But if it came to that, he had already made his choice. Her name was Brenna and she was his heartbeat.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Caressed by Ice
“I was this sad and lonely creature before you came along. And then, just being with you, knowing you love me, had transformed me. My entire life has become this metamorphosis into something beautiful, something happy. I told you before that you've freed me. You've reminded me of what it means to believe and hope.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Find You in the Dark
“With a cold"--she spoke evenly, lowering her eyes a little--"now is the hardest time. Maybe even harder than dying. But this is probably as bad as it can get. You might come to fear the next time you get a cold; it will be as bad as this, but if you just hold steady, it won't be. For the rest of your life. That's how it works. You could take the negative view and live in fear: Will it happen again? But it won't hurt so much if you just accept it as a part of life." With that she looked up at me, smiling.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, quote from Kitchen
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