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This poem differs from Piercy's other works by explicitly focusing on the struggles and resilience of women. It reflects the social and political context of the time, when women's rights and gender roles were being challenged and redefined.
124 quotes from Marge Piercy: 'A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs.
A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young.
24 kwi 2022 · I love this poem by Marge Piercy because it gives her (and you and me) permission to be all those things. Just as importantly, it assures that we are not alone—not in our strength or in our struggles.
30 lip 2012 · A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail. What comforts her is others loving
To have without holding. By Marge Piercy. Share. Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love. with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the wind. roaring and whimpering in the rooms. rustling the sheets and snapping the blinds.
5 kwi 2023 · A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.” ― Marge Piercy
