Mary McCarthy Quotes

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I think as you get older, you find out more and more about yourself and what you like and what you don't like.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.

I did find my direction at an early age.