Mary Gordon may refer to: (wikipedia)
It's like walking into a cathedral.. It reminds me that what I do in the world is a valuable and important thing.
We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
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.
High school students discuss this among themselves and this was a good way to educate them.
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.
My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be.
One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.
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.
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.
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.
