Margaret Anderson

“Self-preservation is the first responsibility.”

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

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

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

“I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.”

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

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

“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.”

“Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.”