“If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.” IfsWarPlaySexConscientious Objectors Book:Braided Lives Source: Braided Lives
“This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children. Don't do your enemies' work for them. Finish your own.” ChildrenWarLife IsPoetryWinningEnemyFeminismPoetDaughterPerseveranceThis LifeOur Daughter Book:Moon Is Always Female Source: Moon Is Always Female
“I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.” PeopleWantWarRealPoetryMovementPoetWindTravelConnectionsMuseumsCollapseButtonsVietnam WarVisitingUnicornCollisionSeedlings Author:Marge Piercy
“The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You wait and wait.” WarPoliticsWaitingTheaterWingsAgingRevengeExileFeverVietnam WarDaydreaming Author:Marge Piercy
“Depressions, local and larger strikes, boom times, wars, repressions, all impact a life as do epidemics such as AIDS and pollution that may take years off a person's life. We all, whether we like it or not and whether we acknowledge it or not, are impacted by the racial attitudes we carry within us, and experience in some form every time we turn on the television, the radio, go to a movie, read a magazine or a newspaper, or walk down the street.” YearsMayPersonsWarFormTurnsWalksAttitudeStreetsTelevisionImpactRadioStrikesAidsNewspapersLocalsMagazinesAcknowledgePollutionTurn-onRepressionEpidemics Author:Marge Piercy
“Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.” WarDinnerBurningIncompetenceIncompetent Author:Marge Piercy