Mary MacLane
Mary MacLane
Mary MacLanewas a controversial Canadian-born American writer whose frank memoirs helped usher in the confessional style of autobiographical writing. MacLane was known as the "Wild Woman of Butte"...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWriter
CountryCanada
beautiful brilliant fame
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
children men thinking
I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down under a roof with a man who is really nothing to her; who wears the man’s name, who bears the man’s children — who plays the virtuous woman. . . . May I never, I say, become that abnormal merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity — a virtuous woman.
adventure done murder
One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.
animal may abnormal
May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.
self analysis constant
I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.
evil feelings needs
I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings…
want born
I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.
genius doe expected
I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
twelve genius
I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.
real literature world
Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.
people may littles
Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.
book writing years
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.
want quiet
I want to live quietly.
book liking-someone wish
When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.