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."

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

"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."

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

"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."