# Quote — Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time

> "Only in us do the dead live. Water flows downhill through us. The sun cools in our bones. We are joined with all living in one singing web of energy. In us live the dead who made us. In us live the children unborn. Breathing each other’s air, drinking each other’s water, eating each other’s flesh, we grow like a tree from the earth." (p322)

- Author: [Marge Piercy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy.md)
- Book: [Woman on the Edge of Time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/woman-on-the-edge-of-time.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marge_Piercy#Woman_on_the_Edge_of_Time_(1976)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/woman-on-the-edge-of-time/only-in-us-do-the

## More from this book

> "Those of your time who fought hard for change, often they had myths that a revolution was inevitable. But nothing is! All things interlock. We are only one possible future..." (p177)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/woman-on-the-edge-of-time/those-of-your.md)

> Suddenly she thought that these men believed feeling itself a disease, something to be cut out like a rotten appendix. Cold, calculating, ambitious, believing themselves rational and superior, they chased the crouching female animal through the brain with a scalpel. From an early age she had been told that what she felt was unreal and didn’t matter. Now they were about to place in her something that would rule her feelings like a thermostat. (p282)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/woman-on-the-edge-of-time/suddenly-she-thought.md)

> Connie got up from her kitchen table and walked slowly to the door. Either I saw him or I didn't and I'm crazy for real this time, she thought. (first lines)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/woman-on-the-edge-of-time/connie-got-up-from.md)