Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Eye, World

  Joyce Carol Oates (1990). “I Lock My Door Upon Myself”, New York : Ecco Press

• The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  "With a Conscience — ‘Our Mother’s Daughters’" by Claudia King, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2015.

• The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Sex, Women

• From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Fate, Journey

• The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Eye, Self

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel”, p.52, Harper Collins

• 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.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Strong, Feelings

• When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Morning, Brother

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