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Top 25 Margaret Laurence Quotes (2025 Update)

Margaret Laurence Quote: “Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.”

1. “Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “The dead don’t bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don’t rest uneasy. Only the living.”

2. “The dead don’t bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don’t rest uneasy. Only the living.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.”

3. “Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.”

4. “Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.”

5. “Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “I can’t change what’s happened to me in my life, or make what’s not occurred take place. But I can’t say I like it, or accept it, or believe it’s for the best. I don’t and never shall, not even if I’m damned for it.”

6. “I can’t change what’s happened to me in my life, or make what’s not occurred take place. But I can’t say I like it, or accept it, or believe it’s for the best. I don’t and never shall, not even if I’m damned for it.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “Follow your heart, and you perish.”

7. “Follow your heart, and you perish.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.”

8. “Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I’ll not beg.”

9. “Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I’ll not beg.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.”

10. “In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “What goes on inside isn’t ever the same as what goes on outside.”

11. “What goes on inside isn’t ever the same as what goes on outside.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.”

12. “When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.”

13. “As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “I am rampant with memory.”

14. “I am rampant with memory.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “If I hadn’t had my children, I wouldn’t have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.”

15. “If I hadn’t had my children, I wouldn’t have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “I’ve never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can’t sit around and wait until inspiration strikes, but neither can you force into being something that isn’t there.”

16. “I’ve never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can’t sit around and wait until inspiration strikes, but neither can you force into being something that isn’t there.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young. Sometimes very young children look at the old, and a look passes between them, conspiratorial, sly and knowing. It’s because neither are human to the middling ones, those in their prime, as they say, like beef.”

17. “Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young. Sometimes very young children look at the old, and a look passes between them, conspiratorial, sly and knowing. It’s because neither are human to the middling ones, those in their prime, as they say, like beef.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this wayand that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunkof costume jewelry.”

18. “Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this wayand that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunkof costume jewelry.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.”

19. “Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.”

20. “Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “Doris is very religious. She says it is a comfort. Her minister is plump and pink, and if he met John the Baptist in tatters in the desert, stuffing dead locusts into that parched mouth for food, and blazing the New Kingdom out of those terrible eyesockets, he would faint. But so would I, likely.”

21. “Doris is very religious. She says it is a comfort. Her minister is plump and pink, and if he met John the Baptist in tatters in the desert, stuffing dead locusts into that parched mouth for food, and blazing the New Kingdom out of those terrible eyesockets, he would faint. But so would I, likely.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “Well, you’re young. You know a lot you won’t know later on.”

22. “Well, you’re young. You know a lot you won’t know later on.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “Nothing is ever changed at a single stroke, I know that full well, although a person sometimes wishes it could be otherwise.”

23. “Nothing is ever changed at a single stroke, I know that full well, although a person sometimes wishes it could be otherwise.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “I could not speak for the salt that filled my throat, and for anger – not at anyone, at God, perhaps, for giving us eyes but almost never sight.”

24. “I could not speak for the salt that filled my throat, and for anger – not at anyone, at God, perhaps, for giving us eyes but almost never sight.”

— Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence Quote: “Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear. I was alone, and never free, for I carried my chains within me, and they spread out from me and shackled all I touched.”

25. “Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear. I was alone, and never free, for I carried my chains within me, and they spread out from me and shackled all I touched.”

— Margaret Laurence

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