Margaret Anderson's Quotes

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Self-preservation is the first responsibility.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

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.

I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.