Heart Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“She expected from other people the same opinions and feeling as her own, and she judged their motives by the immediate effect of their…

— Jane Austen

“She [did feel] made aware of the pettiness of some part of her, and of human relations how flawed they are, how despicable, how…

— Virginia Woolf

“She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for joy in his presence, languished in his…

— Vita Sackville-West

“She had no existence, in herself. From earliest childhood she had believed this. Rather she was a reflecting surface, reflecting others' perception of her,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid

“She found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking…

— Jane Austen

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

“He had a feeling that somewhere in the course of her life something had happened to her, something terrible which in the end had…

— Louis Bromfield

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, now matter the time or place.”

— Alexis Coe

“She seemed never to be troubled by the notion that there might be two sides to a story, or more than one interpretation of…

— Vivian Gornick

“She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that would most…

— Joe Hill