Author: Mary Gordon

Quotes

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

- Mary Gordon

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 that I was not greatly beloved.

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 that I was not greatly beloved.

- Mary Gordon

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 forgivable.

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 forgivable.

- Mary Gordon

One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.

One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.

- Mary Gordon

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

- Mary Gordon

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

- Mary Gordon

My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be.

My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be.

- Mary Gordon

I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.

I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.

- Mary Gordon

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.

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

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