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“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.”

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Marge Piercy

Marge Piercy is an American poet born on March 31, 1936. Her poetry extensively covers social and political issues, known for her profound social consciousness and feminist perspective. more

“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.”

People Thinking Wells Different Fiction Situation Known Violence Danger Stress Notion Range Behave Great Men

Author: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.”

Persons Life Is Economic Particular Circumstances

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“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.”

Years May Persons War Form Turns Walks Attitude Streets Television Impact Radio Strikes Aids Newspapers Locals Magazines Acknowledge Pollution Turn-on Repression Epidemics

Author:Marge Piercy

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