Marge Piercy

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

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.

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

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.

We are all a little bit hippy, a little bohemian. We take that from the culture we knew, from the '70s and the '80s.