One of the drawbacks of upward social mobility is a sense of guilty indebtedness to the old neighborhood.
Mary GordonThe 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 GordonAll the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand.
Mary GordonTags: jane-austen-literature-humor
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 GordonFor 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 GordonTags: immigrant-fiction
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 GordonTags: feminism
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