Mary McCarthy Quotes About Children

Quotes about: 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

• 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

• 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”

• ... 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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