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Mary Gordon quotes

American Writer December 8, 1949

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For the Irish, life is a matter of perpetual grievance. We remember the Famine, but forget the Draft Riots. We seal off our neighborhoods to strangers, but allow our own priests to victimize our own children. We worship violence and we enslave ourselves to alcohol, we lie and steal and kill without conscience for generations at a time. But it's all right in the end, and do you know why? Because we don't tolerate lust. Mary Gordon
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 change, popular culture, and democracy. Oh, and I forgot to mention sex. And sports. And Andy Warhol. But other than that, I'm cool with whatever the kids are into. Really! Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon quote: "We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does."
We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does. Mary Gordon
People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker! Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon quote: "One should never be sexually involved with anyone one..."
One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss. Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon quote: "Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed."
Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed. Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon quote: "All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from..."
All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand. Mary Gordon
The Catholic Church in America is the Irish church. It is our church, end of story. We built it. We paid for it. It is ours. No Mexicans need apply. Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon quote: "One of the drawbacks of upward social mobility is a sense of..."
One of the drawbacks of upward social mobility is a sense of guilty indebtedness to the old neighborhood. Mary Gordon

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