8 Quotes & Sayings By Margaret Anderson

Margaret Anderson was born in 1920 and lived much of her life as a child in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She worked at various jobs, including as a bank teller, and attended local schools until she graduated from high school at age sixteen. Margaret was a high school English teacher for twenty-five years and published short stories and poetry throughout the 1950s and 1960s. She received her MFA from Scripps College in Claremont, California, and taught art history for many years at Florida State University Read more

The Margaret Anderson Award, given annually to a female writer for outstanding contributions to writing by women, is named in her honor.

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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
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In real love you want the other person's good. Margaret Anderson
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The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do. Margaret Anderson
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My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling. Margaret Anderson
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Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station–the Gare D'Orsay–and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees–nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train? . Margaret Anderson
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Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. Margaret Anderson
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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. Margaret Anderson