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Joyce Carol Oates

"Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding."

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"Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding."

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Asa Don Brown

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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Asa Don Brown

"Children are angels."

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Asa Don Brown

"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."

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Asa Don Brown

"A new baby is a bundle of hope, a smiling imagination, and a dancing dreams."

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Asa Don Brown

"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

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Asa Don Brown

"A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer."

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Asa Don Brown

"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."

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Asa Don Brown

"A healthy world is made of healthy nations. A healthy nation is made of healthy families. And a healthy family can only be raised on the foundation of a monogamous relationship."

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"Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys."

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Asa Don Brown

"Children are holy angels."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"I feel very transparent in myself. I'm more of an observer. I'm interested in what's going on. I'm not sure that I really have a personality. Some people think I do have a personality. I have a personality when I am with certain people - but when I'm not with them I don't have that personality. I just sort of go back to resembling a transparent glass of water."

Self

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Joyce Carol Oates
"This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone."

Reflection

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Joyce Carol Oates
"I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Art serves a purpose. It expands our horizons, frees our minds, and opens us up to new experiences. It opens the imagination. All these great discoveries of our time - without the desire to reach beyond our boundaries, we would be forever stagnant. The folly is in closing one's eyes and not recognizing it."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"How strange it is, to be walking away. Is it possible that I am really going to leave Ray-here? Is it possible that he won't be coming home with me in another day or two, as we'd planned? Such a thought is too profound for me to grasp. It's like fitting a large unwieldy object in a small space. My brain hurts, trying to contain it."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Only when men are connected to large universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash."

Life

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Joyce Carol Oates
"You never give such relationships a thought, To give a thought, to take a thought is a function of dissociation, distance. You can't exercise memory until you've removed yourself from memory's source."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart."

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

Motherhood

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