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Analysis (ai): The poem "For strong women" by Marge Piercy explores the challenges and complexities faced by women who strive for strength and independence. Piercy's depiction of a strong woman is physically demanding, emotionally draining, and often met with resistance and criticism.
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 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.
Discover 134 Marge Piercy Quotations: Marge Piercy: 'A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.'.
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. This poem is dedicated to my friend, and to all the other strong women out there straining, standing on tiptoe, and shoveling. For Strong Women
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.
30 lip 2012 · 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 her equally for the strength and for the weakness from which it issues, lightning from a cloud. ~Marge Piercy, "For Strong Women"
