What Are Big Girls Made Of? Quotes

“When will women not be compelled
to view their bodies as science projects,
gardens to be weeded,
dogs to be trained?
When will a woman cease
to be made of pain?”
― Marge Piercy, What Are Big Girls Made Of?: Poems

“Variant selves haunt
the corridors of my brain, people
my novels, crowd in like ghosts
drawn to blood when friends
or strangers tell me secrets,
hand me their troubles,
sweaters knit of hair and wire.”
― Marge Piercy, What Are Big Girls Made Of?: Poems