99 Quotes by Mary MacLane

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

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

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

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

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

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.

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.