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
mother wife wives-and-mothers
I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.
essence personality vapor
But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.
world succeed literature
The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.
marriage religious men
When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.
brave might sometimes
I have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnificent.
important world faces
at this point I meet Me face to face. I am Mary MacLane: of no importance to the wide bright world and dearly and damnably important to Me.
falling-in-love men thinking
Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?
world sexuality pure-love
Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?
speech may language
However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.
writing eating
I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.
joy genius natural
Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.
doe genius knows
A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.
made plans
I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.
storm world vulnerable
Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.