I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.
But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and… - Mary Maclane
But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and…
- Mary Maclane
May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman. - Mary Maclane
May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.
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. - Mary Maclane
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.
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but… - Mary Maclane
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but…
I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius. - Mary Maclane
I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint. - Mary Maclane
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
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 u… - Mary Maclane
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 u…
I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong c… - Mary Maclane
I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong c…
People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis. - Mary Maclane
People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.
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