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
bored civilization interested looks man mention scorn
One kind of man I impatiently scorn is the kind that looks bored if I mention Ibsen or ceramics or Aztec civilization but is interested instantly, alertly, if I mention my garters
book canadian-writer joy longer wrote
The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
love pure utterly woman
Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisiteas the pure love of one woman for another?
taken years three
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 less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.
strong-women taken heart
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 and a pitiably starved soul.
play adore i-like-him
I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.
lines walt
I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
want fame i-can
I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.
beautiful brilliant fame
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
children men thinking
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 under a roof with a man who is really nothing to her; who wears the man’s name, who bears the man’s children — who plays the virtuous woman. . . . May I never, I say, become that abnormal merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity — a virtuous woman.
adventure done murder
One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.
self analysis constant
I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.
evil feelings needs
I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings…
want born
I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.