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MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
The Art of Fiction No. 103
Interviewed by Shusha Guppy
Issue 106, Spring 1988
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INTERVIEWER
What has been your relationship to the feminist movement of the last few decades?

YOURCENAR
It does not interest me. I have a horror of such movements, because I think that an intelligent woman is worth an intelligent man—if you can find any—and that a stupid woman is every bit as boring as her male counterpart. Human wickedness is almost equally distributed between the two sexes.
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