Marguerite Young Quotes

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 mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbling of reality and you accept it. - Marguerite Young

When the dream came into being, I always pursued it. - 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. - Marguerite Young

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. - Marguerite Young

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

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

My first attempt to write about Robert Owen was in the form of poetry. Then I turned it into a blank verse poem, but I discovered that I couldn't fit in all the facts, which are fabulous. I decided to rewrite it a third time, still retaining every image I had already written in the first two versions. - Marguerite Young

Like Kay Boyle, whose work I'm wild about, I could have married, written a book with every baby, a baby with every book. - Marguerite Young

Life has no beginning, middle or end. - Marguerite Young

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