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Mary McCarthy Quotes

1947–1989 United States

Mary Therese McCarthy (21 June 1912 – 25 October 1989) was an American author and critic.

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Also known as: McCarthy, Mary

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Extend your antennae, girls.

The Group (1963)

At home I never thought I was much of a conformist. But I now see that I was without knowing it. I did what everybody else did without being aware I was copying them. Here I mind being different. Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

Birds of America (1971)

A good deal of education consists of unlearning — the breaking of bad habits, as with a tennis serve. This was emphatically true of a Vassar education: where other colleges aimed at development, bringing out what was already there like a seed waiting to sprout, Vassar remade a girl. Vassar was transformational.

How I Grew (1987)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mary McCarthy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.