197 Quotes by Marge Piercy

Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family’s socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person’s.

There is no justice we don’t make daily like bread and love.

Only in us do the dead live. Water flows downhill through us. The sun cools in our bones. We are joined with all living in one singing web of energy. In us live the dead who made us. In us live the children unborn. Breathing each other’s air, drinking each other’s water, eating each other’s flesh, we grow like a tree from the earth.

I don’t think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.

One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one’s ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way – professionally.

The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one’s own current dogma has risen.

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.

People are very afraid of any controversy. We’ve become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization – quite reasonably – they really got bashed.

I don’t apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn’t – I didn’t continue what wasn’t pleasant.