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. — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common… — 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
