"I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that." — Joyce Carol Oates

"I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that."

— 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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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the… — Teresa of Avila
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. — Francis Bacon
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her… — Enid Bagnold
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most… — Abigail Adams
Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just… — Christian Bale
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise… — Honore de Balzac
I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.' — Eric Bana
I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm… — Antonio Banderas
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. — Henry Ward Beecher
If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I… — Pat Benatar
Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball… — Ezra Taft Benson
Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of… — Ezra Taft Benson

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