Quote by Joyce Carol Oates Download Open image ““Not hearing impaired but just not hearing which is a way of not caring.)”” — Joyce Carol Oates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“In complete silence you can’t hear a thing. Just ask a deaf person—but ask them with your fingers.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“In most of us there is a tiny voice we consult as part of our thought processes. Deaf people literally don’t hear themselves thinking.” — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“From the first two-hour class on, I had not said a word. I wanted them to know a little bit of what it is… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“What mattered was not caring. And the best way not to care was to surround yourself with noise and people.” — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
I always say deafness is a silent disability: you can't see, and it's not life-threatening, so it has to touch your life in some… — Rachel Shenton Copy Share Image
“Be deaf! You do not need to hear or, hearing, you do not need to remember. How soothing it is to forget. And how… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Being deaf is not a weakness or it shouldn’t be seen as one and that’s what I wanted to get across that day. It’s… — Melyssa Winchester Copy Share Image
“One of the best things about being deaf is that you can't hear anyone talking smack about you.” — Ashley Fiorek Copy Share Image
“I don’t need a hearing aid—I need a listening aid. And this aid, she’d better be pleasing to look at.” — Jarod Kintz 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
