Marge Piercy Quotes

“i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people”

Marge Piercy

“The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”

Marge Piercy

“We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.”

Marge Piercy Woman on the Edge of Time

Source: Woman on the Edge of Time

“It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.”

Marge Piercy

“I said, I like my life. If I
have to give it back, if they
take it from me, let me only
not feel I wasted any, let me
not feel I forgot to love anyone
I meant to love, that I forgot
to give what I held in my hands,
that I forgot to do some little
piece of the work that wanted
to come through.”

Marge Piercy

"If they come in the night", in The Twelve-Spoked Wheel Flashing (1978); reprinted in Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir (2002).