Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching him as a drowning woman might clutch another person to save her life. Don't don't don't don't leave me. DON'T LEAVE ME. As in animal copulation the frenzy is to be locked together not out of sentiment or choice but physical compulsion. As if bolts of electric current ran through both their bodies and would only release them from each other when it ceased.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sex, Animal, Men

• Where there must be a choice, a girl will choose Daddy. Even if you are Mommy, you concede that this must be so: you remember when you were a girl, too.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Girl, Daddy, Choices

• For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Memories, Remember You, Remembers You

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories”, p.224, Zondervan

• My parents inspired me by their example. They both grew up in the Depression, and both of them had to quit school when they were quite young to work, because there actually was no choice. So they've always impressed me with their resilience, their good spirits, their courage. I just remember them carrying on and just doing their lives. They really made a strong impression on me.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Strong, School, Parent

  "America's Foremost Woman of Letters". American Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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