Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon
Mary Catherine Gordonis an American writer and the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. She is best known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 December 1949
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.
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In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows that - but now I've said it, haven't I? I'm strictly a shower singer at the minute.
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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 to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.
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High school students discuss this among themselves and this was a good way to educate them.
I could not write without my dog, Rhoda, a Lab-chow mix.
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Once the children were in the house the air became more vivid and more heated; every object in the house grew more alive
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It's like walking into a cathedral.. It reminds me that what I do in the world is a valuable and important thing.
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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.
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The change that Mr. Barnard wants to make in the school board policy is utterly ridiculous.
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I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
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My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be.