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 preoccupied with my teaching and my writing. – Marguerite Young
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. – Marguerite Young
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 towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side. – Marguerite Young
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. – 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
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
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. – Marguerite Young
I’m quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. – Marguerite Young
The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women. – Marguerite Young
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
I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about. – Marguerite Young
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don’t blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. – Marguerite Young
I don’t believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience. – Marguerite Young
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. – Marguerite Young
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
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
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
If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized. – Marguerite Young
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
I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night. – Marguerite Young
