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
desire goes-on lectures
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.
world pay interest
One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.
firsts poet
Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.
white littles world
The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.
book names vulgar
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
art two essentials
The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.
devil answers
Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.
self restraint self-restraint
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
fire feelings genius
I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.
sex stupid two
Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.