A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.
Marge PiercyEverything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.
Marge PiercyA strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
Marge PiercyI don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.
Marge PiercyI think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence.
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