Mudwoman
Joyce Carol Oates
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.”
“Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.”
“... her Quaker instincts led her to apologize for wrongs not her own to minimize conflict.”
“Alone,alone! It is a fact, you hear more acutely and you see and think most acutely,when you are alone. Alone, alone! But there is happiness in alone, if you believe you have chosen it.”
“The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.”
“Always, it was claimed of her, she was strong and she was capable. You are not loved for being strong and capable if you are a female but if you are a female and you are strong and capable you will make your way without love.”
“…they weren’t far from the small city of Ithaca – which meant the vast sprawling spectacular campus of Cornell University…”
“What was most striking about the portrait of Jane, Countess of Harrington was the aura of confidence it exuded – not merely the figure of the beautifully composed young noblewoman, her slender face seen just slightly in profile so that her elegantly long nose was outlined, but an air of ontological entitlement as different from M.R.’s sense of being in the world as if she and “Jane, Countess of Harrington” were of two distinct species.”
“The power of a parent to wound, to kill. The power of a parent is terrible.”
“Especially she dreaded the isolation of the swimmer, amid propelled and splashing figures yet she was isolated, always one isolated in the water where thoughts await like froth on the surface of the water that smelled like chemicals.”
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Book Keywords:
inspiration, i-m-sorry, life, war, philosophy
