When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.
Marge Piercy

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.
Marge Piercy

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
Marge Piercy

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Marge Piercy

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
Marge Piercy

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
Marge Piercy

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