Mary Gordon Quotes
- Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.
- One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.
- We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
- If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and…
- My favorite dish is bibimbap, which is composed of various vegetables, steamed and pickled, and meat toppings over a bed of rice.
- I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus.
- I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.
- I could not write without my dog, Rhoda, a Lab-chow mix.
- My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of…
- My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be.
- 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…