“A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“HUSBAND: Is something wrong? BETHIE: Why--why do you ask? HUSBAND: You looked so lonely, suddenly. As if you'd forgotten I'm here.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“In all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Mom’s new husband was eleven years older than Mom. He had been Mom’s boss at the Buick dealership where she’d worked until… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“A female is essentially a cunt, the pure purpose of the female is cunt, but a woman, a wife, is a cunt… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“In this way unwittingly the Widow-to-Be is assuring her husband’s death—his doom. Even as she believes she is behaving intelligently—“shrewdly” and “reasonably”—she… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“She was gracious if oddly shy with his friends when they came to visit; she listened eagerly as women spoke to her… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“When he was three years old Jackie ran into the house crying. I asked, "What's happened? What's wrong?" He showed me his… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Did you know, Marianne: how by breaking the code that day, you broke it forever? For us all?” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
