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

> "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)

- 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/those-of-your

## More from this book

> 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)

> She will walk in strength like a man and never sell her body and she will nurse her babies like a woman and live in love like a garden... (Chapter Seven, p133)

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