Alice McDermott Quotes

I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background – the Irish work ethic, which isn’t quite the same as the Protestant work ethic – but still, it’s, ‘Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don’t complain. Who do you think you are: you’re nobody special; go to work.’

– Alice McDermott