"They perceive whatever they don't control as hostile." (Av… - Marge Piercy

"They perceive whatever they don't control as hostile." (Avram, twenty-five: WHERE THE ELITE MEET)

Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is a Jewish American poet, novelist, and social activist.

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She felt as if she were seventeen again, ignorant, fearful, a creature all gusty emotions and pain. (eight: HOW SHALL I ADDRESS YOU?)

"Some people go on wanting [sex] as long as they live, but other people, they let it go as if it were a garment that had worn out." (Malkah, nine: REVISING THE FAMILY ALBUM)

Repression brings hardening.

"They perceive whatever they don't control as hostile." (Avram, twenty-five: WHERE THE ELITE MEET) - Marge Piercy

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