Mary Gaitskill

thumb|Mary Gaitskill in 2010 Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954) is an American author of essays, short stories and novels. Quotes She brightened. "Last week I ran a personal ad in the Guardian. I answered a few too. I'm not looking for sex; I feel too vulnerable for that. I just want somebody to hurt me and humiliate me." "The Wrong Thing: Stuff" in Because They Wanted To (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), p. 244. My ambition was to live like music. Veronica (New York: Pantheon, 2005), p. 28. Of course there's something there; unfortunately, there's always something 'there.' Something you will one day be sorry you ever saw. Veronica (New York: Pantheon, 2005), p. 127. Everybody wanted to be depressed. But your depression was supposed to be funny, too, and that was what had proved too much for Dolores. "College Town, 1980", in Don't Cry (New York: Pantheon, 2009), p. 12. Dani said this woman, with whom she'd lived for two years, had never known her. "I feel like people accept the first thing I show them," she said, "and that's all I ever am to them." "Today I'm Yours", in Don't Cry (New York: Pantheon, 2009), p. 105. Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction. Interview on NPR All Things Considered, April 19, 2009. External links Category:Short story writers from the United States Category:1954 births Category:Living people Category:Essayists from the United States Category:Novelists from Kentucky Category:Women authors from the United States Category:People from Lexington Category:Women born in the 1950s