My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

Piercy’s line frames personal power and vulnerability as inseparable—“twins” born together rather than opposites to be sorted into neat categories. The image of a shared womb suggests that what we call strength often grows out of the same traits that can expose us: intensity can become fragility, empathy can become pain, stubbornness can become resilience. Read this way, the quote resists moralizing self-help binaries (be strong, eliminate weakness) and instead proposes a more integrated self-understanding. It also implies that attempts to eradicate weakness may amputate the very sources of strength, and that maturity lies in recognizing their shared origin and managing their interplay.