Status Updates From He, She and It

This ending is just filling me with joy at all the little details and conversations.

'“Only hatred shocks me. If we can love a date palm or a puppy or a cyborg, perhaps we can love each other better also.”'

'In the myth of Pygmalion, we assume that she would love her sculptor, but Shaw knew better. Each one of us wants to possess ourself; only fools willingly give themselves away. '

This is not perfect (what is?!), but I love it and I know I will keep thinking about it for a long time.

I think the saddest thing about only having a quarter of this left is that as far as I can tell, Piercy only has one other SF book (the rest are mostly historical fiction) and I feel bummed out, cause I love her.

I am really into the worldbuilding, but I am not sure that the heavy presence of coffee makes sense in this world / town. Is it deemed a necessary luxury? Book club fodder!

Wow, the house AI is extremely salty and I dig it!

Ah, Yod is a great cyborg character, I want to protect him and be friends with him!

'What we cannot name, I said, we cannot talk about. When we give a name to something in our lives, we may empower that something, as when we call an itch love, or when we call our envy righteousness; or we may empower ourselves because now we can think about and talk about what is hurting us, we may come together with others who have felt this same pain, and thus we can begin to try to do something about it.'

Marge Piercy knows how to write about sensuality and I'm here for it!