I like Gertrude Stein, and spent two weeks with her at the University of Chicago.
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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.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
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
Marguerite Young
If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
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
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
Marguerite Young
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