All Marguerite Young Quotes
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.
Marguerite Young
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I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.
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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
Marguerite Young
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The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
Marguerite Young
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There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
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I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.
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I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.
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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
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The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
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Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.
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If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.
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I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
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I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
Marguerite Young
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I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.
Marguerite Young
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