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Marge Piercy on Women

born 1936 United States

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9 quotes

Doorways are sacred to women for we
are the doorways of life and we must choose
what comes in and what goes out.

fragment of poem in Moon Is Always Female (1980)

The Movement is supposed to be for human liberation: how come the condition of women inside it is no better than outside?

The Grand Coolie Damn (1969)

A tendency to believe quite literally in the rhetoric of Movement males is a form of naiveté that no woman can afford.

The Grand Coolie Damn (1969)

There are a lot of lonely and a lot of horny women.

The Grand Coolie Damn (1969)

The importance of male solidarity to enforce discrimination and contempt for women cannot be overemphasized.

The Grand Coolie Damn (1969)

The use of women as props for a sagging ego is accepted socially. Everybody sees it and everybody agrees that they don't.

The Grand Coolie Damn (1969)

At that time, a pregnant woman could not get an abortion in Massachusetts -- but a cat could. (p221)

Sleeping with Cats (2001)

What is honor from a woman's point of view? Honor has been defined from a male point of view. What does it mean to choose not to endure having been raped?

She will walk in strength like a man and never sell her body and she will nurse her babies like a woman and live in love like a garden... (Chapter Seven, p133)

Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marge Piercy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.