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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Joyce Carol Oates quotes about mother

American Novelist, Writer June 16, 1938

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The fact was that the woman lived the life she chose, she was happy in that life and it was no one's business after all but her own, my uncle's face darkening with blood as he spoke, my mother's fair fine skin pink as if smarting yet still I persisted, for I thought it such a horror, such a grief, yes and an embarrassment too, I said, "She's made a prison of this house, it's like she's a nun, it must be to punish herself," and my mother said quietly, angrily, "You don't know - what do you... 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
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Bullshit! Li-ar! Your mother and father are dead like..."
Bullshit! Li-ar! Your mother and father are dead like everybody else. Everybody is dead. Joyce Carol Oates
From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you. Joyce Carol Oates

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