Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• 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.

• Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Distance, Oxygen, Parent

• After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Grandmother, Past, Thinking

  "The grandmother of invention". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2007.

• I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think that they had a resilience and an integrity that may be somewhat deficient in my own generation, and in subsequent generations as well, because America has been rather easy to live in since the Depression.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Integrity, Thinking, America

  Source: www.achievement.org

• 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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