In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada.… — Mary Gordon Canada 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… — 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 Community 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… — Mary Gordon Anti semitic 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… — Mary Gordon Actually 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… — Mary Gordon About 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,… — Mary Gordon Beauty 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… — Mary Gordon Been Copy Share Image
“All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand.” — Mary Gordon Jane-austen-literature-humor 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… — Mary Gordon Am 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… — Mary Gordon About 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… — Mary Gordon Bad Copy Share Image
“People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that… — Mary Gordon Books Copy Share Image
Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and… — Mary Gordon Any Copy Share Image
My favorite dish is bibimbap, which is composed of various vegetables, steamed and pickled, and meat toppings over a bed of rice. — Mary Gordon Bed Copy Share Image
“For the Irish, life is a matter of perpetual grievance. We remember the Famine, but forget the Draft Riots. We seal off… — Mary Gordon Immigrant-fiction Copy Share Image
I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist. — Mary Gordon Art Copy Share Image
I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus. — Mary Gordon Adore Copy Share Image
One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss. — Mary Gordon Anyone Copy Share Image
I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy. — Mary Gordon Any Copy Share Image
My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being… — Mary Gordon Am Copy Share Image
I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything… — Mary Gordon Absolutely Copy Share Image
