I’m afraid I’m not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you’ve given away trade secrets. Mary McCarthy Read Quote
When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans. Mary McCarthy Read Quote
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. Mary McCarthy Read Quote
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner. Mary McCarthy Read Quote
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. Mary McCarthy Read Quote
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. Mary McCarthy Read Quote
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret. Mary McCarthy Read Quote
