Margaret Anderson

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

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