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Piercy's depiction of a strong woman is physically demanding, emotionally draining, and often met with resistance and criticism. She portrays women as "straining" and "lifting a barbell" while enduring emotional abuse and societal expectations.
24 kwi 2022 · For Strong Women. by Marge Piercy. A strong woman is a woman who is straining. A strong woman is a woman standing. on tiptoe and lifting a barbell. while trying to sing “Boris Godunov.”. A strong woman is a woman at work. cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about.
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.
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.
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
Piercy likens a strong woman to someone "standing on tiptoe and lifting a barbell while trying to sing 'Boris Godunov.'" This striking image encapsulates the dual demands placed on strong women: the physical and emotional labor, combined with societal expectations to perform and maintain composure.
16 paź 2023 · This poem is a reminder to all women of the strength we carry inside us. This is the strength that rises from the core of a woman's pain and courage. It isn't easy. It isn't heroic, in the way we normally think of heroism. It's the strength of woman defying a culture that wants to diminish her.
