I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

— Marge Piercy

Life is the first gift love is the second and understanding the third.

— Marge Piercy

Live as if you like yourself and it may happen.

— Marge Piercy

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

— Marge Piercy

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

— Marge Piercy

Never in your life have you been helpless—under somebody’s heel. You never lived where your enemies held power over you, power to run your life or wipe it out. You can’t understand. That’s how come you stand there feeding me empty slogans!” Lucien bowed her head. “You CRT me justly, Connie. Forgive me. I’ll try to see your situation more clearly and make less loud noises in your ears.

— Marge Piercy

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

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

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

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