50 ordspråk av Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy föddes den 21 juni 1912 och dog den 25 oktober 1989 - amerikansk författare och samhällsdebattör.
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En depression hos en kvinna som inte ens den bäste psykiater klarar av, fixar en medelmåttig frisör lätt.

Kvinnan

Mången depression, som inte ens den bäste psykiater förmår komma till rätta med kan avhjälpas av en medelmåttig frisör.

Kvinnor och Kvinnligt

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex

I våldet glömmer vi vilka vi är.

In violence, we forget who we are

Vold

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Samvittighet

Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.

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

Bureaukrati

If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision", you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad.

Avgjørelse

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

The happy ending is our national belief.

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

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