Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes


age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.


Citations

Yourcenar, Marguerite. With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Beacon Press, 1984.

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Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Born: June 8, 1903
  • Died: December 17, 1987
  • Nationality: French, American
  • Profession: Novelist

Marguerite Yourcenar was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy seat 3.