Mary McCarthy - The Group (1963)

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You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex — that's quite a thought, isn't it?

Mary McCarthy

All neurotics are petty bourgeois. And vice versa. Madness is too revolutionary for them. They can't go the whole hog. We madmen are the aristocrats of mental illness.

Mary McCarthy

It was June, 1933, one week after Commencement, when Kay Leiland Strong, Vassar '33, the first of her class to run around the table at the Class Day dinner, was married to Harald Petersen, Reed '27, in the chapel of St. George's Church, P. E., Karl F. Reiland, Rector.

Mary McCarthy