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> [The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/the-censors-have-always-had-a-field-day-with-james-joyce-specifically/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

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## More by Karen DeCrow

> [As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,' 'Aida, Norma,'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/as-any-opera-fan-knows-lawyers-and-judges-do-not-fare-well-in-most/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/operas-elucidate-in-a-way-sometimes-absent-in-other-theatrical/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/despite-the-strength-of-the-feminist-movement-in-the-1970s-and-beyond/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/in-my-opinion-the-battles-over-birth-control-and-planned-parenthood/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/in-chamber-music-the-audience-can-hear-each-instrument-and-understand/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/if-a-woman-makes-a-unilateral-decision-to-bring-pregnancy-to-term-and/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/just-as-the-supreme-court-has-said-that-women-have-the-right-to/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/the-metropolitan-opera-of-course-is-the-gold-standard-in-opera-the/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/daddy-was-hilarious-he-could-take-the-most-mundane-event-and-tell-it/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/the-irony-is-that-the-more-we-fight-age-the-more-it-shows-paint-on-a/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/the-censors-have-always-had-a-field-day-with-james-joyce-specifically/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/knowing-constitutional-law-helps-one-at-the-opera-the-trial-in-billy/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/we-should-cease-thinking-about-men-as-the-enemy-of-children-and-women/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/i-was-running-for-mayor-of-syracuse-the-first-woman-to-run-for-mayor/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

> [Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-decrow/is-it-a-recent-occurrence-that-women-have-tried-to-control-when-and/)

[Karen DeCrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-decrow/)

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