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Mary McCarthy Quotes about Children

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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Mary McCarthy
Forgiveness, Children, Women
Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

Mary McCarthy
Mother, Children, Childhood
Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Mary McCarthy
Children, Past, Reality
Mary McCarthy (2011). “Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood”, p.16, Random House

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Mary McCarthy
Happy, Children, America
Mary McCarthy (1993). “Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938”, Harcourt

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