Quote by Joyce Carol Oates Download Open image ““A woman convinced against her will is of the same opinion still.”” — Joyce Carol Oates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“When a man's position in life depends upon his having a certain opinion, that's the opinion he will have.” — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“The biggest mistake a woman can make is convincing herself that she is the one who will be different.” — Julie James Copy Share Image
“She would rather be right from now on than to stubbornly insist she'd never been wrong in the first place.” — Edward W. Robertson Copy Share Image
“I have never had better opinions of woman than I had of her.” — Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury Copy Share Image
“Seek out those who think differently from you and whom you will never be able to convince that you are right.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“A man who does not doubt the courage of a woman, is a man that is subjugated by her will and allure.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“My father believed that, in understanding and in knowledge of right and wrong and in many other things, women are men’s equals and I… — Susanna Clarke 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