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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

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American Novelist, Writer June 16, 1938

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I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes. Joyce Carol Oates
And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs. Joyce Carol Oates
Close up she saw that Molina's eyes were beautiful and dark thik eye lashed the way Lisette's mother tried to make hers with a mascara brush. The skin beneath Molina's eyes were soft and bruised looking and on her throat were tiny dark moles. It did not seem right that a woman like Molina, who you could tell was a mother-her body was a mother's body for sure, wide hips-could be a cop; it did not seem right that this person was carrying a gun, in a holster attached to leather belt, and that... Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through..."
The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother. Joyce Carol Oates
The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me. Joyce Carol Oates
I would know of myself through the witnessing and naming of others. As Jesus in the Gospels is only seen and spoken of and recorded by others. I would know my existence and the value of that existence through others' eyes, which I believed I could trust as I could not trust my own. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the..."
Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye..."
Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see. Joyce Carol Oates

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