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“I would never have made a true Marxist—it’s something you have to take up early, like ballet”

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"I saw all sorts of men that winter," McCarthy later writes. "I realized one day that in twenty-four hours I had slept with three...."

MARY: I was your undoing-
LILLIAN: You were nothing more than an irritation-

MARY: It's just too easy to say that the reason women fight with each other is because they're jealous.
LILLIAN: Absolutely. We had plenty of reasons to dislike each other. Good reasons.

LILLIAN: We all wanted to be one of the boys.
MARY: I never wanted to be one of the boys—
LILLIAN: But you wanted to be the only woman at the table, which is practically the same thing.

LILLIAN: When I got older and realized I probably would never make much of a radical, I was nonetheless attracted to them.

LILLIAN: So you were an accidental Trotskyite, just as you were an accidental Mrs.Edmund Wilson. Just out of curiosity, what decisions in your life did you actually make?