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“Margaret is kindled by it, exalted for a time, sees it as passion, glows and becomes rounded, but only for a time. After a…

— Norman Mailer

“Margaret described an oppressive awareness that “I have no real hold on life,—no real, permanent connection with any soul.” She felt disembodied, like “a…

— Megan Marshall

“could unsheathe from her arsenal a mockingly grave way of talking about things she found either portentous or frivolous. She could shrink your aspirations…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Margaret felt her anger taking control of her in a way she had never experienced before, jabbing in and out of her eyes, her…

— Bruce Hartman

“Affection is not important to you, nor to me. You want power Margaret, power and wealth; and so do I. Nothing matters as much…

— Philippa Gregory

“She lacks mystery; and the charm people have who withdraw, and don't care to coin their views. One figures her always in flight; so…

— Virginia Woolf

“Margaret grasped on to the magic of novels because they held out hope that Mary—and she herself—might yet have a chance at marriage. While…

— Tracy Chevalier

“She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to…

— Anaïs Nin

“Behind the studied blankness of her gaze, revolt must have been simmering. I recognized that surliness, that stubbornness, that captive-princess indignation, which must be…

— Margaret Atwood

“She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.”

— Ida Hattemer-Higgins

“The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is and will…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Still, when your truthful eyes, your keen, attentive stare, endow the vacuous slut with royalty, when you match her soul to her shimmering hair,…

— Lisel Mueller