Quotes by Mary Gordon - Page 1

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
Mary Gordon /
Happiness
Deserve
None
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Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.
Mary Gordon /
Great
Vocation
Waiting
Dispossessed
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I could not write without my dog, Rhoda, a Lab-chow mix.
Mary Gordon /
Mix
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I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus.
Mary Gordon /
Adore
Broadway
Chorus
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I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.
Mary Gordon /
Be Happy
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I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
Mary Gordon /
Moral
Life Believe Your
Primary
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One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.
Mary Gordon /
Guarantees
Involved
Loss
Cares
Genuinely
Sexual
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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.
Mary Gordon /
Courage
Graduate School
Belonged
Gave
Graduate
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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
Meat
Rice
Vegetables
Favorite
Composed
Dish
Over
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My weakness is 'American Idol.' My husband thinks it's ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts out.
Mary Gordon /
American Idol
Guts
Inspired
Weakness
I Am Singing People
Idol
Thinks
Young People
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Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and be working at Dunkin' Donuts.
Mary Gordon /
Donuts
Fluke
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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 /
Beloved
Life Mother Me
Life Me My Life
Gifts
Greatly
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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 /
Anti Semitic
Jewish
Politics Me Father
Convert
Politics Father Me
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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 acknowledge that they are sad.
Mary Gordon /
Sad
Acknowledge
Chic
Coldness
Ironic
Sadness
People Will Anything
Absolutely
Sad People Will
Absolutely Not
Among
Writers
Particularly
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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.
Mary Gordon /
Habit
Moral
Pointless
Reader
Good Mind Bad
Describe
Enterprises
False
Fictional
Mainly
Neither
Nor
Stems
Styles
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My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever.
Mary Gordon /
Died
Metaphor
Ready
Vulnerability
World Your I Am
World Father I Am
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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.
Mary Gordon /
Canada
Early Life
Radio
Television
Folk
Folk Singer
Minute
National Television
Strictly
Shower
Sing
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I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.
Mary Gordon /
Coal
Inspiration
Joy
Tales
Life Great Joy
Life Great Father
First Job
Largely
Mine
Tramp
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Feminism is very much a part of a lot of my student's lives, but they're not going to march about it or take a public political stance. And I think more and more young women are claiming that they're not feminists - even though they are.
Mary Gordon /
Feminism
March
Stance
Young Women
Women Are
Claiming
Student
Feminists
More And More
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'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers.
Mary Gordon /
Canon
Catholic
Common
Dogma
Perspective
Seems
Writer
Choice
Influenced
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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.
Mary Gordon /
Pension
Policy
Twenties
Years Ago
Plan
Young People
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