Marguerite Young Quotes

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• Life has no beginning, middle or end.
• If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
• When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a…
• All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking…
• 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…
• Don't blindly follow any leader.
• Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into…
• The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
• I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick…
• The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
• I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was…
• All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
• Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.
• All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
• 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…
• If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
• I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
• Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
• I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book…
• 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,…

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