Famous Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
And I like your laugh, Sabbath; it’s inaudible.– Joyce Carol Oates
A fear of the unknown: what was that called?Worse yet: a fear of the known.– Joyce Carol Oates
He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul.– Joyce Carol Oates
Popular! In America, what else matters?– Joyce Carol Oates
The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.– Joyce Carol Oates
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.– Joyce Carol Oates
Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.– Joyce Carol Oates
He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn’t matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.– Joyce Carol Oates
Can compromise be an art? Yes–but a minor art.– Joyce Carol Oates
See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there’s a reason. There has to be– Joyce Carol Oates