A Book of American Martyrs
Joyce Carol Oates
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Life is the horror, abortion or miscarriage is the redemption. As Sophocles said so beautifully, ‘Never to have been born is best, but once you’ve entered this world, return as quickly as possible to the place you came from.”
“I wasn’t so special, honey. Except that I was your dad, I wasn’t so special.”
“A man is fearful of lonely in a woman”
“the terrible intimacy of pregnancy,”
“The murderer is not protected! He is vulnerable. TO”
“The fetus wished to live. Stubbornly, sometimes astonishingly-the fetus struggled to live. But the power of its life-or its death-had to reside with the mother. No other alternative was possible.”
“That is a blessing of bad dreams, they are quickly forgotten.”
“Life is the horror, abortion or miscarriage is the redemption. As Sophocles said so beautifully, ‘Never to have been born is best, but once you’ve entered this world, return”
“It is not anything to be ashamed of. That is my opinion. Edna Mae and Luther felt differently of course. To them, it would be like murder. But I think if the mother is married, and there is a father—and the doctor suggests it—it is nothing like abortion which is plain murder and should be outlawed.”
“And that smell of masculine indignation, rage like something singed.”
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