I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a … - Marguerite Young

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He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man. . . or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.

Marguerite Young

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.

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I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

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If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

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Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.

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If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

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