“Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.” TryingSelfMy OwnViewsBehindsToo MuchRegardShouldersTwistsSelf-importance Book:Braided Lives Source: Braided Lives
“Love says, mine. Love says, I could eat you up. Love says, stay as you are, be my own private thing, don't you dare have ideas I don't share. Love has just got to gobble the other, bones and all, crunch. I don't want to do that. I sure don't want it done to me!” WantIdeasDoneMy OwnShareMinesDareBonesCrunchPrivate Things Book:Braided Lives Source: Braided Lives
“Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.” MindSometimesCharacterDifficultMy OwnEmotionNovelMy Own LifeDoorways Author:Marge Piercy
“I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not come from people who had many options in their lives or many choices open to them. I was a girl in a family in which women were, as in society at large, very much second-class citizens. I did not see why I should accept these forced limitations without a fight. Being free to make my own choices thus became very important to me at an early age.” PeopleShouldImportantFactsAgeChoicesGirlFightingMy OwnAcceptingClassCitizensLimitationWorking ClassDetroitFacts Of LifeAnti SemitismBeing FreeMy GirlGirlhoodSecond Class Citizens Author:Marge Piercy
“I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.” KnowsWritingFirstsChildrenBookWould BeMy OwnRoomsFictionDoorsPrivacyFragile Author:Marge Piercy
“I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.” KnowsWellsBodyReadingLanguageMy OwnMinesCatCommunicateSubtleSignalsBody LanguageAdept Author:Marge Piercy
