Mary MacLane - The Story Of Mary MacLane (1902)

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I write every day. Writing is a necessity — like eating.

Mary MacLane
The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

Mary MacLane
Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

Mary MacLane
Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.

Mary MacLane
I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Mary MacLane
May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity — a virtuous woman.

Mary MacLane
Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?

Mary MacLane
Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?

Mary MacLane
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.

Mary MacLane
Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.

Mary MacLane
A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

Mary MacLane
I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings…

Mary MacLane
People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

Mary MacLane
However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

Mary MacLane
The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.

Mary MacLane
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.

Mary MacLane
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.

Mary MacLane
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.

Mary MacLane
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.

Mary MacLane
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.

Mary MacLane