We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.
Marge PiercyA strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
Marge PiercyPeople are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite reasonably - they really got bashed.
Marge PiercyThe will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
Marge Piercy