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. Mary MacLane Read Quote
Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm. Mary MacLane Read Quote
It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls. Mary MacLane Read Quote
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. Mary MacLane Read Quote
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. Mary MacLane Read Quote