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.

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.

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

The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?