Quotes by 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.
• I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
• My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
• Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.
• It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
• Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
• In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
• Self-preservation is the first responsibility.
• I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.