English literature Quotes by Mary Gordon

In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows…

— Mary Gordon

“The Catholic Church in America is the Irish church. It is our church, end of story. We built it. We paid for it. It…

— Mary Gordon

“One of the drawbacks of upward social mobility is a sense of guilty indebtedness to the old neighborhood.”

— Mary Gordon

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.

— Mary Gordon

Feminism is very much a part of a lot of my student's lives, but they're not going to march about it or take a…

— Mary Gordon

My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second…

— Mary Gordon

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

— Mary Gordon

My weakness is 'American Idol.' My husband thinks it's ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts…

— Mary Gordon

I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking…

— Mary Gordon

If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad,…

— Mary Gordon