72 Quotes by Marguerite Young

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.

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.

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.