Self-preservation is the first responsibility.
Margaret Anderson
Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.
Margaret Anderson
In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Margaret Anderson
I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn’t know it existed. It didn’t occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.
Margaret Anderson
I have always fought for ideas – until I learned that it isn’t ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
Margaret Anderson
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Margaret Anderson
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
Margaret Anderson
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
Margaret Anderson
I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.
Margaret Anderson
