"How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look."

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Source : Joyce Carol Oates (2007). “The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982”, Ecco

Joyce Carol Oates

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“I think a lot of women who are celebrities and who are very beautiful have terrible problems with their men being very controlling. Women allow themselves to be dominated and controlled by men in all sorts of other ways that are very complicated, you know? I don't really see a lot of women engaging in discussions about the struggles and power relations with men and their lives, like their bosses, boyfriends, husbands, coworkers. I don't see that happening very often, whereas I see a lot of misogyny on the internet. I see a lot of hatred towards women and a lot of fear of women.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.”

Source : Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.465, Discovery House
“Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.”
“It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.”
“A lot of people call Dizzy old fashioned but so is the bible.”

Source : Interview with Ethan Iverson, ethaniverson.com. April 2011.
“I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.”
“No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.”

Source : Song: Get It Together

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