Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Mary Gordon
![Mary Gordon](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: December 8, 1949 (age 74)
Bio: Mary Catherine Gordon is an American writer and the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. She is best known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism.
Known for:
- Final Payments (1978)
- The Company of Women (1981)
- The shadow man (1996)
- The Stories of Mary Gordon (2006)
- The rest of life (1993)