Quotes from How I Grew — Mary McCarthy
1947–1989 United States
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Nobody in this land, certainly no Christian, can accept hating on a full-time basis; it is apt to reflect back on the hater.
How I Grew (1987)
About truth I have always been monotheistic. It has been an article of faith with me, going back to college days, that there is a truth and that it is knowable.
How I Grew (1987)
You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.
How I Grew (1987)
[I]t is a mistake to think that an intellectual is required to be intelligent; there are occasions when the terms seem to be almost antonyms.
How I Grew (1987)
[I]n school, character is fate.
How I Grew (1987)
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)