The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: children motherhood parenting
A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, blossom sized flakes falling languidly and melting on the ground, a premature snow fall delicate as lace, rapidly melting.
Joyce Carol OatesOnly in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.
Joyce Carol OatesRemembering backward is the easy thing. If you could remember forward, you could save yourself...
Joyce Carol OatesDuring these mad dashes to the wall phone in the kitchen she hadn't time to fall but with fantastical grace and dexterity wrenched herself upright in midfall and continued running (dogs whimpering, yapping hysterically in her wake, cats scattering wide-eyed and plume-tailed) before the telephone ceased it's querulous ringing--though frequently she was greeted with nothing more than a derisive dial tone, in any case.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: funny-humor
Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life
Joyce Carol OatesTags: romance
Legally I am a ‘widow’ — that is the box I must check. But beyond that — I am not sure that I exist.
Joyce Carol OatesParadox: 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.
Joyce Carol OatesYou don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.
Joyce Carol Oates... her Quaker instincts led her to apologize for wrongs not her own to minimize conflict.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: i-m-sorry
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