Mary Mccarthy Quotes

We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mary McCarthy

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that. . . you really must make the self.

Mary McCarthy

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Mary McCarthy

In violence, we forget who we are

Mary McCarthy

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality

Mary McCarthy

In violence, we forget who we are.

Mary McCarthy

An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished equation.

Mary Mccarthy