Marge's Quotes

#1. I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.

Nancy Cartwright

#2. When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.

Marge Piercy

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

Marge Piercy

#4. A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

Marge Piercy

#5. Don't be ridiculous! You waste less time than anyone I know.'
'You don't know, sweetie. For years I've had down days. Days I just can't cope. Can't get on with anything. Can't get up and out or at it or whatever.'
'Not enough to keep you from being invaluable politically.

Marge Piercy

#6. If what we change does not change us, we are playing with blocks.

Marge Piercy

#7. I tend toward the unnatural, sometimes with supernatural undertones or such.

Marge Simon

#8. If I observe my cats carefully, it is partly because I observe everyone I deal with as carefully as I can and partly because they amuse and entertain me. They are an important part of the fabric of my daily life.

Marge Piercy

#9. Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.

Marge Piercy

#10. But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

Matt Groening

#11. It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth.

Marge Piercy

#12. I 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.

Marge Piercy

#13. Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human ... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.

Marge Piercy

#14. If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

Marge Piercy

#15. They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use.

Marge Piercy

#16. Lisa, I apologize to you, I was wrong, I take it all back. Always be yourself. If you want to be sad, honey, be sad. We'll ride it out with you. And when you get finished feeling sad, we'll still be there. From now on, let me do the smiling for both of us.

Matt Groening

#17. Its like Mrs Fitzherbert all over again, or that bloody Simpson woman! I do not believe it!"
"Sorry," said Merlin, wondering who the blazes Mrs Fitzherbert and that bloody Simpson woman
were. He had a feeling Gaius didn't mean Marge.

FayJay

#18. The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.

Marge Kennedy

#19. Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground

Marge Piercy

#20. Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.

Marge Piercy

#21. I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let me onlynot feel I wasted any, let menot feel I forgot to love anyoneI meant to love, that I forgotto give what I held in my hands,that I forgot to do some littlepiece of the work that wantedto come through.

Marge Piercy

#22. Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

Marge Piercy

#23. Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.

Marge Piercy

#24. Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

Marge Piercy

#25. Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

Marge Schott

#26. they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.

Marge Piercy

#27. What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

Marge Piercy

#28. The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

Marge Piercy

#29. We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.

Marge Piercy

#30. I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials ... I'd say things like, 'Hi, Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach.' Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress.

Teri Garr

#31. 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

#32. An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

Marge Piercy

#33. It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.

Marge Piercy

#34. A little man in a threadbare coat spoke up for the poor as if he really knew what he was talking about. The women with the flowers threw them down for him. "That's Robert Speer," one said. "Something like that. He's our man.

Marge Piercy

#35. No, It's not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. Sometimes I suspect that those who are running things might grow addicted to power. Secrecy's essential in wartime, but once in place, will it ever be removed?

Marge Piercy

#36. Santa's Little Helper
Isn't it ironic that Homer calls his pet
the same name Marge calls his penis?

Beryl Dov

#37. Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.

Marge Piercy

#38. It's only money, honey.

Marge Schott

#39. A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.

Jonah Hill

#40. Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.

Marge Piercy

#41. She had been swimming in a big pink aquarium, and she never thought that somebody would come along with a hammer and break it until she was gasping for her life and everything she had taken for granted, for permanent, was gone.

Marge Piercy

#42. 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 Piercy

#43. The 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

#44. The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round and about and upside down, dancing with it a kind of bolero of two snakes twisting and coiling, until the poem has found its right and proper shape.

Marge Piercy

#45. I like communicating with cats. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

Marge Piercy

#46. The dog lives here, Pete. You're just visiting.

Marge Schott

#47. People 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 Piercy

#48. On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.

Marge Piercy

#49. I love you. That never changed eversince that day you walked right in front of me.

Marge Baylin

#50. Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath ... a little winter no spring can melt.

Marge Piercy

#51. When I tell you "forever", I mean it.

Marge Baylin

#52. I am my mother's daughter, ... I am her only novel.

Marge Piercy

#53. My aunt Marge has been so ill for so long that we've started to call her I can't believe she's not better

Milton Jones

#54. Los Angeles: city that was nothing but a slot machine dispensing plastic toys.

Marge Piercy

#55. Charlie and I were never blessed with children.

Marge Schott

#56. With living creatures / one must begin very early / to dwarf their growth : / the bound feet, / the crippled brain, / the hair curlers, / the hands you / love to touch.

Marge Piercy

#57. Helpless as a burning city, / how can I ignore that the extremes / of pleasure are fire storms / that leave a vacuum into which / dangerous feelings (tenderness, / affection, l o v e) may rush / like gale force winds.

Marge Piercy

#58. In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie 'Fargo,' when Bill Macy is arrested, Marge is nowhere to be found because it's a different jurisdiction, and she wouldn't be there. I took that to heart.

Noah Hawley

#59. You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire.

Marge Piercy

#60. Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills and away.

Madison Cawein

#61. They say that Grandma Moses had several canvases going at the same time. Maybe it was a way for her to catch up with the time she missed while raising children and tending the farm. Like Grandma, I tend to have more than one poem or fiction going at a time. For me, it's just the way I think.

Marge Simon

#62. Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.

Marge Piercy

#63. Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Marge Piercy

#64. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

Marge Piercy

#65. The need exists. I serve the need. After me the need will exist and the need will be served. Let me do well what has and will be done as well by others. Let me take on the role and then let it go.

Marge Piercy

#66. The politics of the exile are fever,
revenge, daydream,
theater of the aging convalescent.
You wait in the wings and rehearse.
You wait and wait.

Marge Piercy

#67. Attention is love, what we must give
children, mothers, fathers, pets,
our friends, the news, the woes of others.
What we want to change we curse and then
pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can
with eyes and hands and tongue. If you
can't bless it, get ready to make it new.

Marge Piercy

#68. History is a game played backwards only.

Marge Piercy

#69. Economy is the bone, politics is the flesh,
watch who they beat and who they eat.

Marge Piercy

#70. All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.

Marge Piercy

#71. Good will starts out fat and sweet
as tub butter and turns slowly rancid.
It must be made again daily
if we want it fresh.

Marge Piercy

#72. The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.

Marge Piercy

#73. Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

Marge Piercy

#74. The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and take off my sex like a dress and why not?

Marge Piercy

#75. Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding, the third

Marge Piercy

#76. Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.

Marge Schott

#77. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.

Marge Piercy

#78. 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

#79. With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.

Marge Piercy

#80. 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

#81. People were not getting back what they wanted for their sold labor. Taxes grew and services shrank. Prices rose and quality decayed. Everywhere people felt used and betrayed and coerced and cheated.

Marge Piercy

#82. The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.

Marge Piercy

#83. Like species, couples die out or evolve.

Marge Piercy

#84. I don't like the designated hitter. A guy who plays should be able to catch and hit.

Marge Schott

#85. The price of seeing is silence.

Marge Piercy

#86. Once upon a time, you were everything to me..and I was everything to you.

Marge Baylin

#87. I require a hierarchy of priorities after protecting Shira and Malkah and the small felines.

Marge Piercy

#88. It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles ... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again.

Marge Piercy

#89. When will women not be compelled
to view their bodies as science projects,
gardens to be weeded,
dogs to be trained?
When will a woman cease
to be made of pain?

Marge Piercy

#90. Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything.

Marge Kennedy

#91. This life is a war we are not yet
winning for our daughters' children.
Don't do your enemies' work for them.
Finish your own.

Marge Piercy

#92. We are not different nor alike
But each strange in his leather body
sealed in skin and reaching out clumsy hands
and loving is an act
that cannot outlive
the open hand
the open eye
the door in the chest standing open.

Marge Piercy

#93. When you don't have kids and you're in a Catholic family - one of my sisters had 10 children in 11 years - she's part rabbit - you feel kind of guilty about that. So, I want to do things for other people's children.

Marge Schott

#94. I 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 Piercy

#95. Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

Marge Kennedy

#96. Hate them more than you hate yourself, and you'll stay free!

Marge Piercy

#97. Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

Marge Piercy

#98. I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.

Marge Piercy

#99. The powerful don't make revolutions

Marge Piercy

#100. Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

Marge Piercy