“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.” ThinkingWayIdeasStatesCertainUnitedUnited StatesTroubleTreatsOneselfExperts Author:Marge Piercy
“We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.” IfsThinkingMenRealUseSocialViolenceMiddleRateViolentAdmireChainsThoughtfulLionsTigersPredatorReal MenThis SocietySecond RateFood ChainHesitantPanthers Book:The Longings of Women: A Novel Source: The Longings of Women: A Novel
“Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.” ThinkingPersonsMadeDifficultMistakeHavensGood Friend Author:Marge Piercy
“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.” PeopleThinkingMayUsePastOur LivesMinesLife And Change Author:Marge Piercy
“I think we validate our lives through our actions.” ThinkingActionOur LivesOur Actions Author:Marge Piercy
“I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to tell what actually was part of your life and what is part of the story of the fictional character.” IfsThinkingDifferentHardCharacterStoriesUseFictionStrangeFictional Character Author:Marge Piercy
“I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence.” PeopleThinkingWellsDifferentFictionSituationKnownViolenceDangerStressNotionRangeBehaveGreat Men Author:Marge Piercy
“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.” ThinkingKindKidsBabyAll KindsExpertsOfficialsTerrifiedNoticingMistrustThis SocietyHaving A BabyRaising Kids Book:Gone to Soldiers: A Novel Source: Gone to Soldiers: A Novel
