What did Joyce Carol Oates mean by: Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive. - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA Copy
+ Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Knowing, Possibility, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Most people who are writers go through periods when they can’t write. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Periods, Writing, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Her problem wasn’t she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn’t a blonde and she wasn’t dumb. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Dumb, Problem, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Brain, Hills, Struggle, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Politics per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Ironic, Moral, Writing, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Self, Tennis, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! Feraz Zeid, November 5, 2023December 26, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Critics, Editors, Sympathetic, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Death is just the last scene of the last act. Feraz Zeid, September 2, 2023December 24, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Scene, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED. - Jean Vanier Philosopher and theologian
History is not a suicide note — it is a record of our survival. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Sometimes you have to forget and forgive. Forgive them for hurting you and forget that they exist! - Jeffree Star Entrepreneur · USA