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Mary Therese McCarthy war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Frauenrechtlerin.

✵ 21. Juni 1912 – 25. Oktober 1989   •   Andere Namen Mary McCarthyová, Mary Therese McCarthy
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“Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.”

Birds of Americs (1965), "Epistle from Mother Carey's Chicken"

“You know what my favourite quotation is? […] It’s from Chaucer […] Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese."”

First published in Partisan Review (July-August 1941)
Quelle: The Company She Keeps (1942), Ch. 3 "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt", p. 70.

“People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.”

"The Contagion of Ideas", p. 54
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)

“I combine concrete cynicism with a sort of vague optimism.”

As quoted in "Lady with a Switchblade" in LIFE magazine (20 September 1963)

“The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.”

"America the Beautiful: The Humanist in the Bathtub", p. 18
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)

“[B]ureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.”

"The Vita Activa", pp. 161–162
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)

“Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.”

"The Contagion of Ideas", p. 44. A speech delivered to a group of teachers (Summer 1952); not previously published
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)

“You never learn a language unless you use it.”

Mary McCarthy buch Cannibals and Missionaries

Quelle: Cannibals and Missionaries (1979), Ch. 11

“Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it. Conscience doth make cowards of us all, eh mamma mia?”

If you start an argument with yourself, that makes two people at least, and when you have two people, one of them starts appeasing the other.
"Epistle from Mother Carey's Chicken"
Peter quotes 'Conscience doth make cowards of us all' from the 'To be, or not to be' speech in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 3, scene 1.
Birds of America (1971)

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