Mary Maclane

(11 votes)   It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

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

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(13 votes)   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 thing, and then she read the book.

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(12 votes)   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.

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(11 votes)   The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

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(10 votes)   I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

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(10 votes)   I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

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(10 votes)   I want to live quietly.

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(10 votes)   I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

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(10 votes)   I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

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(9 votes)   Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

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(9 votes)   One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

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(9 votes)   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.

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(9 votes)   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 love - and I no longer wish to be.

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(8 votes)   I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

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