Inspirational Quotes by Marge Piercy (American Poet)

Marge Piercy (b.1936) is an American poet, novelist, and social activist hailed as a contemporary feminist icon. Her works have a political bent and give voice to strong female characters.

Born to a Jewish-Welsh working-class family in Detroit, Piercy studied at Michigan and Northwestern universities and was active in the civil rights movement. She worked as an instructor and poet-in-residence before publishing her first collection of poetry, Breaking Camp (1968.)

Piercy’s poetry is dominated by the pleasures of love and nature and the injustices of sexism. Her later collections include The Twelve-Spoked Wheel Flashing (1978,) Mars and Her Children (1992,) and What Are Big Girls Made Of? (1997.)

Piercy novels integrate feminism, science fiction, and social concerns. Her notable novels include Going Down Fast (1969,) Woman on the Edge of Time (1976,) He, She and It (1991; U.K.: Body of Glass, 1992, Arthur C Clarke Award,) City of Darkness, and City of Light (1996.) Woman on the Edge of Time, her best-known work, is a feminist sci-fi novel where a woman detained and drugged in a New York psychiatric hospital conjures up a utopian future world, but worries that it could unfurl a dystopia where the methodical use of mind-control fortifies the elite’s power.

Piercy wrote Sex Wars (2005,) set in the post-Civil War USA. Her memoir Sleeping with Cats appeared in 2002. After her mother died in 1981, Piercy renewed her interest in the Jewish faith, principally in Reconstructionist Judaism. Her nonfiction book about Passover Seder tradition is Pesach for the Rest of Us (2007.)

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