I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.
More Quotes by Mary McCarthy
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
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.
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.
We are the hero of our own story.
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.