"I am what would be called a 'mainstream……" — Joyce Carol Oates

"I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist."

— Joyce Carol Oates

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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

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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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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the… — David Attenborough
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us… — Teresa of Avila
The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are… — Teresa of Avila

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