Margaret Anderson Quotes

"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
(Related: Ideas, Vision, Grief, Struggle)

"My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: Enemy, Reality, Years)

"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: Life, Thought)

"It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: American, Writer)

"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: Intellectuals)

"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: Love, Romantic, Want)

"Self-preservation is the first responsibility."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: First, Responsibility, Self)

"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: Country)