Erin Peterson Morrissey reminded me of Maud Gonne whatn she was at Santa Clara University School of Law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Gonne
In pertinent part:
In the same year, she joined the Roman Catholic Church. She refused many marriage proposals from Yeats, not only because he was unwilling to convert to Catholicism and because she viewed him as insufficiently radical in his nationalism, but also because she believed his unrequited love for her had been a boon for his poetry and that the world should thank her for never having accepted his proposals. When Yeats told her he was not happy without her, she replied,
| “ | Oh yes, you are, because you make beautiful poetry out of what you call your unhappiness and are happy in that. Marriage would be such a dull affair. Poets should never marry. The world should thank me for not marrying you.[9] | ” |
In the 1930s she was involved in the Friends of Soviet Russia organisation.[10]
Marriage
In Paris in 1903, after having turned down at least four marriage proposals from Yeats between 1891 and 1901, Maud married Major John MacBride, who had led the Irish Transvaal Brigade against the British in the Second Boer War. The following year their son Seán MacBride was born.
JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa. 