Mary MacLane Quotes

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• I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.
• 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…
• 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…
• I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
• When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or…
• Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body…
• It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.
• I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a…
• I want to live quietly.
• You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to…
• I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
• I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.
• I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
• I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one…
• I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

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