29 Quotes by Mary Gordon

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.

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.

It's like walking into a cathedral.. It reminds me that what I do in the world is a valuable and important thing.

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.

Once the children were in the house the air became more vivid and more heated; every object in the house grew more alive

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.

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.

High school students discuss this among themselves and this was a good way to educate them.

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