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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."

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"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."

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"All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe."
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"I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me."
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"I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia."
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"Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?"
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"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."
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"All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning."
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