197 Quotes by Marge Piercy

One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians. Because when you look at anything long enough to be able to identify it, you see far more clearly and you make a tiny beginning at understanding the life, the place, the history of that bird or rock or mammal.

Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh....

I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.

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

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.

What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass,