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Marge Piercy

"A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail."

Source : Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.77, Knopf

Marge Piercy

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“If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.”
“I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.”
“Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.”
“One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner rushed in and asked us to run out to the assembly grounds and see the wonderful sunset. Standing outside we saw sinister clouds glowing in the west and the whole sky alive with clouds of ever-changing shapes and colors, from steel blue to blood red. The desolate grey mud huts provided a sharp contrast, while the puddles on the muddy ground reflected the glowing sky. Then, after minutes of moving silence, one prisoner said to another, "How beautiful the world could be...”
“There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.”
“Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.”

Source : In Time 3 July 1978, p. 33
“Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air force, no economy.”

Source : "Transcript: NPR's Interview With Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 20, 2015.
“An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.”

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