"Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde,……" — Joyce Carol Oates

"Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb."

— Joyce Carol Oates

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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates has 312 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves…
The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last…
I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up.…
The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut…
The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might…
Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death…
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

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When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have… — Amy Adams
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. — Saul Bellow
Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde.… — Cate Blanchett
I see L.A. as a beautiful blonde with dirty underwear. — David Boreanaz
I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes. — Raymond Chandler
People keep asking me if I am having more fun, being blonde, but I always have fun! Whether I'm blonde,… — Kelly Clarkson
It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people. — Pamela Anderson
Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like… — Muriel Barbery
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But… — Georg Baselitz
When you see a blonde with great tits and a great ass, you say to yourself, 'Hey, she must be… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
God says in the bible that we should love our neighbor and he created us all as equals. I know… — Heidi Montag
I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde. — Patricia Neal

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