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Marge Piercy 

 (born March 31, 1936) is an American progressive activist, feminist, and writer.

 "Her work includes Woman on the Edge of Time; 

He, She and It, which won the 1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award;  

and Gone to Soldiers,  

a New York Times Best Seller and a sweeping historical novel set during World War II.  

Piercy's work is rooted in her Jewish heritage, Marxist social and political activism, and feminist ideals."  

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_Piercy

"On her childhood and Jewish identity, Piercy said:

 "Jews and blacks were always lumped together when I grew up. I didn’t grow up 'white.' 

 Jews weren't white. My first boyfriend was black.  

I didn't find out I was white until we spent time in Baltimore and I went to a segregated high school. 

 I can't express how weird it was. 

 Then I just figured they didn't know I was Jewish."

"An indifferent student in her early childhood, Piercy developed a love of books when she came down with the German measles and rheumatic fever in her mid-childhood and could do little but read. 

 "It taught me that there's a different world there,  

that there were all these horizons that were quite different from what I could see" 

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"Emily Elizabeth Dickinson 

 (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) 

 was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. " 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson