Quotes by Mccarthy, Mary

The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many >>

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad >>

In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves >>

Quotations about Housework

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. >>

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth >>

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mot >>

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.

Mccarthy, Mary