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.
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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
If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
Marguerite Young
I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.
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.
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I like Gertrude Stein, and spent two weeks with her at the University of Chicago.
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Like Kay Boyle, whose work I'm wild about, I could have married, written a book with every baby, a baby with every book.
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