My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever. — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“One of the drawbacks of upward social mobility is a sense of guilty indebtedness to the old neighborhood.” — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find the anti-Semitism… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand.” — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
