Marguerite Young
Marguerite Young
Marguerite Vivian Youngwas an American writer and academic. She is best known for her novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. In her later years, she was known for teaching creative writing and as a mentor to young authors. "She was a respected literary figure as well as a cherished Greenwich Village eccentric." Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Young was educated at Butler University and the Universities of Chicago and Iowa. She briefly taught at Shortridge High School before embarking on...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 August 1908
CountryUnited States of America
The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.
Don't blindly follow any leader.
All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl
If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
Life has no beginning, middle or end.
I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.
we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.
When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.