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
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.
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.
devil answers
Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.
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.
storm world vulnerable
Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.
made plans
I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.
writing eating
I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.
world sexuality pure-love
Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?
marriage religious men
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.
world succeed literature
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.
twelve genius
I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.
genius doe expected
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 know I shall never be.
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.
lines walt
I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.