It's like walking into a cathedral. It reminds me that what I do in the world is a valuable and important thing.
– Mary Gordon
Once the children were in the house the air became more vivid and more heated; every object in the house grew more alive.
– Mary Gordon
One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.
– Mary Gordon
Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.
– Mary Gordon
We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
– Mary Gordon
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
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.