Mary Gordon Quotes

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

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One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.

All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand.

I sometimes find it difficult to distinguish praise from blame.

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

For the Irish, life is a matter of perpetual grievance. We remember the Famine, but forget the Draft Riots. We seal off our neighborhoods to strangers, but allow our own priests to victimize our own c...

Look, just because I'm an angry, repressed, Irish-Catholic feminist doesn't mean I hate everything. I only hate youth, beauty, the human body, nature, technological change, popular culture, and democr...

People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with...