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a woman after my own heart
120 years later
Mary published her first book, I Await The Devil's Coming, as teenager in 1901, her confessional autobiographical writing (which she is believed to be the first to do, so the first blogger, really) was so radical and controversial that "rebellious" behavior in young women was literally dubbed MacLaneism.
Being so controversial you get literal bad behavior named after you? Fucking GOALS.
A few quotes:
“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity— a virtuous woman. Anything, Devil, but that.”
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“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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“Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?”
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“But I am too young yet to think of peace. It is not peace that I want. Peace is for forty or fifty. I am waiting for my Experience. I am awaiting the coming of the Devil.”
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“Fame may pass over my head; money may escape me; my one friend may fail me; every hope may fold its tent and steal away; Happiness may remain a sealed book; every remnant of human ties may vanish; I may find myself an outcast; good things held out to me may suddenly be withdrawn; the stars may go out, one by one; the sun may go dark; yet still I may hold upright my head, if I have but my steak—and my onions.”
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“Had I been born a man I would by now have made a deep impression of myself on the world - on some part of it. But I am a woman, and God, or the Devil, or Fate, or whosoever it was, has flayed me of the thick outer skin and thrown me out into the midst of Life - has left me a lonely damned thing filled with the red, red blood of ambition and desire, but afraid to be touched, for there is no thick skin between my sensitive flesh and the and world s fingers. But I want to be touched.”
120 years later
Mary published her first book, I Await The Devil's Coming, as teenager in 1901, her confessional autobiographical writing (which she is believed to be the first to do, so the first blogger, really) was so radical and controversial that "rebellious" behavior in young women was literally dubbed MacLaneism.
Being so controversial you get literal bad behavior named after you? Fucking GOALS.
A few quotes:
“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity— a virtuous woman. Anything, Devil, but that.”
-
“People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.”
-
“Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?”
-
“But I am too young yet to think of peace. It is not peace that I want. Peace is for forty or fifty. I am waiting for my Experience. I am awaiting the coming of the Devil.”
-
“Fame may pass over my head; money may escape me; my one friend may fail me; every hope may fold its tent and steal away; Happiness may remain a sealed book; every remnant of human ties may vanish; I may find myself an outcast; good things held out to me may suddenly be withdrawn; the stars may go out, one by one; the sun may go dark; yet still I may hold upright my head, if I have but my steak—and my onions.”
-
“Had I been born a man I would by now have made a deep impression of myself on the world - on some part of it. But I am a woman, and God, or the Devil, or Fate, or whosoever it was, has flayed me of the thick outer skin and thrown me out into the midst of Life - has left me a lonely damned thing filled with the red, red blood of ambition and desire, but afraid to be touched, for there is no thick skin between my sensitive flesh and the and world s fingers. But I want to be touched.”
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