Mary McCarthy Quotes
Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
Mary McCarthy. Interview on The Dick Cavett Show, 18 Oct. 1979.
In the 1912 Republican convention both the Taft and the Roosevelt camps claimed a majority of forty delegates. A reporter asked Depew what he thought of the situation.
Describing Martin Luther King Jr.:
After the Constitution had been ratified, there was a concerted attempt on the part of the Southern Slave States to minimize the importance of the Declaration of Independence. They feared that the equality principle in the Declaration should be seen by Americans as desirable policy which clearly meant slavery was untenable. There were three approaches all used by the Southerners. First, they tried to make it clear that the Declaration had no weight in American law or moral principles as it was superseded by the Constitution. Second, they claimed that it could only have applied to white men as Black males were not really men. Third, that the statement was patently false. This quotation illustrates the latter.
Mary Therese McCarthy was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel The Group, her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman.
