Marge Piercy Quotes

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

My life has been about big changes.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.

Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

Life is about movement, expansion, growth, and actualizing potential. If you stay in a home, relationship, or job beyond the time it is healthy for you, the universe will prod you with thorns as if to say, “It’s time to move to a broader domain.” If you do not heed the message, the thorns will get sharper and at some point you will have no choice but to fly. When you do, you will understand why a once comfortable situation became uncomfortable.

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

We who once were fools and dreamers, then shall we be brave and wise.

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

Life is change.

I believe that change is the essence of life.

At different times in life, I've felt like it's time to say goodbye from some form of myself that's been hanging around for a while - you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They're just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where's it's just time to move on.

I'm passionate about transformation.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

Remember that transformation is a present activity.

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.