I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.

When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.

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

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.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.