Mary MacLane World Quotations

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

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

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, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.

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.

at this point I meet Me face to face. I am Mary MacLane: of no importance to the wide bright world and dearly and damnably important to Me.

Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?