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# Mary Gaitskill

(1954)   Novelist   United States

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Mary Gaitskill is a novelist from the United States, best known for *Veronica*.

## Quick Facts About Mary Gaitskill

Born November 11, 1954

Nationality United States

Profession Novelist

Notable works Veronica

Spouse Peter Trachtenberg

## About Mary Gaitskill

Mary Gaitskill 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, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. 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.

## Awards & Honors

Hopwood Award Guggenheim Fellowship

##  Quotes by Mary Gaitskill · Page 2

> [When you're writing a story, you're creating something of an artificial ending.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/when-you-re-writing-a-story-you-re-creating-something-of-an/)

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[Creativity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creativity/)

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> [“He longed for a dim-eyed little slut with a big, bright mouth and black vinyl underwear.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/he-longed-for-a-dim-eyed-little-slut-with-a-big-bright-mouth-and/)

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> [Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood,don't write fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/somebody-once-said-to-me-if-you-want-to-be-understood-don-t-write/)

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[Fiction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fiction/)

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> [The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/the-hurts-of-childhood-that-must-be-avenged-so-small-and-so-huge/)

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[Childhood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/childhood/)

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> [I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/i-remember-the-time-i-said-i-don-t-think-you-love-yourself-you-need/)

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[Learn to love yourself](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/learn-to-love-yourself/)

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> [“At times she had thought that this was the only kind of connection you could have with people—intense, inexplicable and ultimately incomplete.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/at-times-she-had-thought-that-this-was-the-only-kind-of-connection/)

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[Heart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heart/)

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> [You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/you-can-teach-people-a-lot-about-craft-and-various-techniques-and-you/)

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> [I think a woman who commits adultery, is not sympathetic in our culture - or in many cultures, let's face it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/i-think-a-woman-who-commits-adultery-is-not-sympathetic-in-our/)

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[Adultery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adultery/)

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> [“He was beginning to see her as a locked garden that he could sneak into and sit in for days, tearing the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/he-was-beginning-to-see-her-as-a-locked-garden-that-he-could-sneak/)

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[Garden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/garden/)

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> [I became very aware of how important it is to connect with children - possibly for the children, if they're in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/i-became-very-aware-of-how-important-it-is-to-connect-with-children/)

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[Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/)

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> [“She had put on the suit of “model” many years before and now she couldn’t take it off, and it hurt and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/she-had-put-on-the-suit-of-model-many-years-before-and-now-she-couldn/)

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[Beauty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beauty/)

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> [“When boys get angry with each other, they just fight it out and it's all over. But girls are dirty. They pretend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/when-boys-get-angry-with-each-other-they-just-fight-it-out-and-it-s/)

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[Boys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/)

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> [Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/partly-i-m-worried-that-no-one-is-saying-anything-because-they-are/)

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> [I think that politics in most people's lives expresses itself like that: indirectly, in half thought-out opinions and feelings. And sometimes through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/i-think-that-politics-in-most-people-s-lives-expresses-itself-like/)

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[Feelings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feelings/)

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> [It's bizarre: I've tried to understand why people are into Trump. I really don't think I can. I don't think it's as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/it-s-bizarre-i-ve-tried-to-understand-why-people-are-into-trump-i/)

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[Bizarre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bizarre/)

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> [But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/but-now-all-the-natural-secrets-have-been-exposed-and-it-is-likely/)

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> [When you approach the second half of your life, you start to unconsciously consider what you're passing on. As a writer, that's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/when-you-approach-the-second-half-of-your-life-you-start-to/)

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[History](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/)

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> [“I stared at the objects before me: cold coffee in a cup of thick white glass, folded napkin, spoon with a liquid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/i-stared-at-the-objects-before-me-cold-coffee-in-a-cup-of-thick-white/)

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[Coffee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/coffee/)

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> [Point of view changes so much as time goes on. And it's important to acknowledge that the truth is multifaceted. And yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/point-of-view-changes-so-much-as-time-goes-on-and-it-s-important-to/)

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> [Even happy situations can easily start to feel miserable. So, I think that people who consider themselves sophisticated or who are in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/even-happy-situations-can-easily-start-to-feel-miserable-so-i-think/)

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[Character](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/character/)

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> [When I was a kid, I did want to be a boy. I didn't like to play with dolls, and most of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/when-i-was-a-kid-i-did-want-to-be-a-boy-i-didn-t-like-to-play-with/)

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[Being a girl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/being-a-girl/)

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> [I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/i-think-people-try-to-make-the-most-of-their-time-on-earth-and-also/)

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> [“When John took those naked pictures, the most popular singer was a girl with a tiny stick body and a large deferential…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/when-john-took-those-naked-pictures-the-most-popular-singer-was-a/)

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[Amusement parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amusement-parks/)

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> [I think, over the course of one's lifetime, there are always certain core elements that are intriguing to you, and you take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/i-think-over-the-course-of-one-s-lifetime-there-are-always-certain/)

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> [ “The place Joanne is building inside \[herself\] has rooms for all of this. Not just rooms. Beautiful ones. For Karl and Jerry… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/the-place-joanne-is-building-inside-herself-has-rooms-for-all-of-this/)

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[Cowboy hat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cowboy-hat/)

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> [“God famously doesn't afflict Job because of anything Job has done, but because he wants to prove a point to Satan. Twenty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/god-famously-doesn-t-afflict-job-because-of-anything-job-has-done-but/)

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[Beauty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beauty/)

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> [That's why every society on the planet has very definite rules, ideas about how sex should be regulated, how sex should be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/that-s-why-every-society-on-the-planet-has-very-definite-rules-ideas/)

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[Behavior](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/behavior/)

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> [“Music is a form that tends to give shape to rules, social mores, social attitudes, feelings—it does this in a very beautiful,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/music-is-a-form-that-tends-to-give-shape-to-rules-social-mores-social/)

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[Beauty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beauty/)

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> [ “...loading your brain with subliminal messages… How loathsome to turn a sadistic murder into entertainment \[in the newspaper\] -- and yet how… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/loading-your-brain-with-subliminal-messages-how-loathsome-to-turn-a/)

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[Dark comedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dark-comedy/)

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> [“I shouldn't be doing this, he thought. She is actually a nice person. for a moment he had an impulse to embrace…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/i-shouldn-t-be-doing-this-he-thought-she-is-actually-a-nice-person/)

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> [“Valiantly, he tried to bring his soul to life in the small thing through which it had to live, and it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/valiantly-he-tried-to-bring-his-soul-to-life-in-the-small-thing/)

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> [I think people hold back all kinds of things. And in a way, they just want to be nice. They want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/i-think-people-hold-back-all-kinds-of-things-and-in-a-way-they-just/)

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> [“I can see her mind beating around the closed car like a bird. Locked in with privileges and pleasures, but also with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/i-can-see-her-mind-beating-around-the-closed-car-like-a-bird-locked/)

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[Heart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heart/)

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> [He had lunch with Cecilia that afternoon. They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in a diner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/he-had-lunch-with-cecilia-that-afternoon-they-ate-their-corned-beef/)

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> [What are you thinking?” She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/what-are-you-thinking-she-asks-that-you-are-beautiful-that-not/)

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> [She disapproved, but part of her seemed secretly to sympathize with the sickness. It was like she thought everybody had it, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/she-disapproved-but-part-of-her-seemed-secretly-to-sympathize-with/)

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[Sickness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sickness/)

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> [Human beings look so different from each other, voices are so different, everything about us is so individual, and that's so exciting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/human-beings-look-so-different-from-each-other-voices-are-so/)

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[Beautiful](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beautiful/)

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> [“He realized what had been disturbing him about her. With other women whom he had been with in similar situations, he had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/he-realized-what-had-been-disturbing-him-about-her-with-other-women/)

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> [When he held her that way, she felt so happy that it disturbed her. After he left, it would take her hours…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/when-he-held-her-that-way-she-felt-so-happy-that-it-disturbed-her/)

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[Agitated](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/agitated/)

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> [If I'm meeting somebody for the first time, I don't look them up on Wikipedia, or I try not to, because I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/if-i-m-meeting-somebody-for-the-first-time-i-don-t-look-them-up-on/)

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## Mary Gaitskill by topic

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                        "text": "“The place Joanne is building inside [herself] has rooms for all of this. Not just rooms. Beautiful ones. For Karl and Jerry and Karen and Nate in his cowboy hat and the hot-tub guy and movie directors and old-lady healers and people trying to love their asses and people who think they're stupid for it. In these rooms, each thing that looks crazy or stupid will be like a drawing you give your mother, regarded with complete acceptance and put on the wall. Not because it is good but because it is trying to understand something. In these rooms, there will be understanding. In these rooms, each madness and stupidity will be unfolded from its knot and smoothed with loving hands until the true thing inside lies revealed.”",
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                        "text": "“God famously doesn't afflict Job because of anything Job has done, but because he wants to prove a point to Satan. Twenty years later, I am sympathetic with my first assessment; to me, in spite of the soft radiant beauty of many of its passages, the Bible still has a mechanical quality, a refusal to brook complexity that feels brutal and violent. There has been a change, however. When I look at Revelation now, it still seems frightening and impenetrable, and it still suggests an inexorable, ridiculous order that is unknowable by us, in which our earthly concerns matter very little. However, it not longer reads to me like a chronicle of arbitrarily inflicted cruelty. It reads like a terrible abstract of how we violate ourselves and others and thus bring down endless suffering on earth. When I read And they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pain and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds , I think of myself and others I've known or know who blaspheme life itself by failing to have the courage to be honest and kind—and how then we rage around and lash out because we hurt. When I read the word fornication , I don't read it as a description of sex outside legal marriage: I read it as sex done in a state of psychic disintegration, with no awareness of one's self or one's partner, let alone any sense of honor or even real playfulness. I still don't know what to make of much of it, but I'm inclined to read it as a writer's primitive attempt to give form to his moral urgency, to create a structure that could contain and give ballast to the most desperate human confusion.”",
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                        "text": "“Music is a form that tends to give shape to rules, social mores, social attitudes, feelings—it does this in a very beautiful, fluid way. To me the issue of form and formlessness is most strong in the theme of mortality versus a human wish for immortality of a sort. Take, for example, the definition of beauty in fashion. Remember what Alison says at the beginning? She says when she was young she didn’t know what beautiful was. She looked at this woman who everyone was saying was beautiful and she didn’t even know what they were talking about. I experienced that when I was a child. If I loved someone I thought they were really beautiful. And then eventually, I began to get it, the social concept of beauty. Not that I think beautiful is completely imaginary, but beauty is so wide ranging and fluid. Yet there’s a need to say: “This is what it is, and it’s not changing; we’re taking a picture of it to hold it still.” It’s like an impulse to put up a building meant to last forever. An urge to grab and hold something in place when nothing human can be grabbed and held in place. We come into these physical bodies . . . whatever we are takes this shape that is so particular and distinct—eyes, nose, mouth—and then it gradually begins to disintegrate. Eventually it’s going to dissolve completely. It’s a huge problem for people; we can understand it, but it breaks our hearts. And so we’re constantly trying to pin something down or leave a trace that will last forever. “And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita . . .” What other immortality will anyone share?”",
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                        "text": "“...loading your brain with subliminal messages… How loathsome to turn a sadistic murder into entertainment [in the newspaper] -- and yet how hard not to read about it. What dark comedy to realize that you are scanning for descriptions of torture as you disapprove. Which of course only makes it more entertaining. \"But naturally I was hoping they'd report something grisly,\" you say to your friends, who chuckle lighthearted acknowledgment of hypocrisy.”",
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