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I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.

I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.

Marge Piercy
Mother, Remember, Quarrels
Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives”, p.8, PM Press

Now that I am in my forties, she [my mother] tells me I'm beautiful; now that I am in my forties, she sends me presents and we have the long, personal and even remarkably honest phone calls I always wanted so intensely I forbade myself to imagine them. How strange. Perhaps Shaw was correct and if we lived to be several hundred years old, we would finally work it all out. I am deeply grateful. With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.

Marge Piercy
Beautiful, Mother, Grateful
Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives: A Novel”, p.418, PM Press

History is a game played backwards only.

Marge Piercy
Games, History, Backwards
Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.129, Knopf

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

Marge Piercy
Depressing, People, Tree
Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.68, Knopf

One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way - professionally.

Marge Piercy
Thinking, Ideas, United States

We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.

Marge Piercy
Real, Men, Thinking
Marge Piercy (2016). “The Longings of Women: A Novel”, p.351, Open Road Media

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