Charles-dickens Quote by Mary MacLane

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

— Mary MacLane

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

— Mary MacLane

“I Don’t Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I don’t know why death holds a so sweet lure since…

— 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

“It is of the dubious inevitable side of human nature—like gold teeth and tinned salmon and bastard lacy valentines”

— Mary MacLane

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

— 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…

— Mary MacLane

“And it is in New York I have those strangest things of all: human friendships. Not many friendships and not of spent familiarities: for…

— Mary MacLane

I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.

— Mary MacLane

“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity— a virtuous woman. Anything, Devil, but that.”

— Mary MacLane

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

— Mary MacLane

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…

— Mary MacLane