Mary Gordon Quotes

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

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

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.

I could not write without my dog, Rhoda, a Lab-chow mix.

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus.

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

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

My favorite dish is bibimbap, which is composed of various vegetables, steamed and pickled, and meat toppings over a bed of rice.

I sometimes find it difficult to distinguish praise from blame.

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

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.

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.

All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand.