A Quote by Alice McDermott

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.

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Alice McDermott
American - Writer
Born: June 27, 1953

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of that generation were even less likely to express themselves, more likely to have that active interior life that they didn't dare speak out. So I was interesting in women of that era. I was interested in the language of that era. There's so much. And, certainly, this is cultural, so much there wasn't spoken about.

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