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I’ve always felt that in order to change things, you have to understand the forces and choices that created the PRESENT, therefore I write about times in the past that I find very relevant.

— Marge Piercy

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More quotes by Marge Piercy

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)

Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen:
reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in.

Each good novel has a vision of its world that informs what is put in and what is left out.

Life of Prose and Poetry — An Inspiring Combination (1999)

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

Dance the Eagle to Sleep (1973)

If you have contempt for people and think they cannot know what they want and need, who the hell is the revolution for?

The Grand Coolie Damn (1969)

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