“The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.” WellsFunEnjoyClassHealthyImportanceFedsRulingDissatisfiedCannibalFun Loving Author:Marge Piercy
“Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.” YearsWellsNaturalReligiousGrowingTreeSeasonsHistoricalHolidaySignificanceInwardLooking BackRelevanceCalendarsGrowing ThingsHistorical Significance 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
“We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.” WellsLife IsFightingIndividualMediaAccountsProgrammingTruthfulSoup 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
“Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.” KnowsWellsCertainStuffPoetAmountDrawsPoolImagery Author:Marge Piercy
“It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.” IfsKnowsWritingWellsLooksImportantCharacterStoriesTermSite Author:Marge Piercy
“I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.” PeopleWorldWantWellsDoneHandsMovingCommonFireFieldsShapesTasksCleanRhythmDustBagsEvidentHarvestMudWell DoneParlor Book:Circles on the Water Source: Circles on the Water
“The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.” WorldWellsDoneHandsCommonShapesCleanDustEvidentMudWell Done Book:Circles on the Water Source: Circles on the Water
