Richard

“In violence we forget who we are.”
― Mary McCarthy

“Luckily, I am writing a memoir and not a work of fiction, and therefore I do not have to account for my grandmother’s unpleasing character and look for the Oedipal fixation or the traumatic experience which would give her that clinical authenticity that is nowadays so desirable in portraiture.”
― Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

“What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.”
― Mary McCarthy

“We are the hero of our own story.”
― Mary McCarthy