Marge Piercy Quotes

Listen more than you talk.

I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

The easiest bit is when you're talking. It's listening that is so difficult. If you get out any Spencer Tracy film, you think, 'Wow, he's doing nothing, yet he's doing everything.'

Listen more than you speak.

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

Cats talk to whomever they please.

For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.

Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.

Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

I know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up on a lot little posture things like how the eyes look, the posture of the cat ears, is it tense? They're picking up just a lot of their body cues from the dog, the cat or the horse.

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

Cats ask plainly for what they want.

A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share.

We've had several cats. I had a cat when I was a kid. My Aunt had lots of cats and I got lots of calls about cats.