"The danger of motherhood. you relive your early……" — Joyce Carol Oates

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes… - Joyce Carol Oates

"The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother."

— 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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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;… — Aristotle
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. — Nancy Astor
Crying wolf is a real danger. — David Attenborough
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. — James A. Baldwin
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man… — John Adams
When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably… — Drew Barrymore
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I… — Clara Barton
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire
The most dangerous people are the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the… — Kate Adie

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