Mary Gaitskill Quote

Dani said this woman, with whom she’d lived for two years, had never known her. I feel like people accept the first thing I show them, she said, and that’s all I ever am to them.

Mary Gaitskill

Dani said this woman, with whom she’d lived for two years, had never known her. I feel like people accept the first thing I show them, she said, and that’s all I ever am to them.

Tags: love

Related Quotes

About Mary Gaitskill

Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993, 2006, 2012, 2020), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998, 2008). Her books include the short story collection Bad Behavior (1988) and Veronica (2005), which was nominated for both the National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.