Quotes About Society
Men grow cold as girls grow old And we all lose our charms in the end. How prettily Lorelei Lee sang these mordant lyrics!
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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Never can you climb over this wall, you're not strong enough; girls aren't strong enough; girls aren't big enough; your body is fragile and breakable, like a doll; your body is a doll; your body is for others to admire and to pet; your body is to be used by others, not used by you; your body is a luscious fruit for others to bite into and to savor; your body is for others, not for you.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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It was not yet known how the Revolution would develop. But Upton supposed that the arguments of the philosophical anarchists were most convincing: society would fragmentise into independent, self-governing communities of mutually congenial individuals, requiring no police, no army, no guardians of morality, and no government. The old Deity being dead and dethroned, Humankind would come at last into power.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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Always, it was claimed of her, she was strong and she was capable. You are not loved for being strong and capable if you are a female but if you are a female and you are strong and capable you will make your way without love.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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I know that there are many essential biological differences between the sexes, of course. But not so many 'culturally-mandated' differences. In First World countries we've evolved beyond mere biology -it isn't the fate of the human female to be pregnant continously until she wears out and dies.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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Marx had famously denounced religion as the opiate of the people, now it was Fame that was the opiate of the people;
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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You are indeed a victim of our culture's mercenary exploitation of feminine innocence.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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Clearly, boxing's very image is repulsive to many people because it cannot be assimilated into what we wish to know about civilized man. In a technological society possessed of incalculably refined methods of mass destruction (consider how many times over the United States and the Soviet Union have vaporized each other in fantasy) boxing's display of direct unmitigated and seemingly natural aggression is too explicit to be tolerated.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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Let them write angry letters to the Government- they haven't been loved enough, there has been some crime
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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Popular! In America, what else matters?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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No matter what she said publicly, the principal of North Hammond High did not believe in rehabilitation for the young. It was too expensive, and its results were unreliable. Recidivism was high. Better to accept that with a few exceptions the young were an accursed generation, frontal lobes stunted from video games, cell phones, TV, sex-gratification by the hour. They had no sense of history and so could have no sense of the future. Equipped with state-of-the-art
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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Civilization is faces, appearances: when these collapse, civilization collapses as well.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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Della riendo, diciendo entre jadeos: «¿De qué vale ser una perdida y una puta si a los treinta años no tienes nada?». Y a Norma Jeane le faltaban
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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Mulheres eram especialistas em chorar, assim como os homens eram humilhados e impedidos de chorar. Mulheres eram purificadas pelo choro, assim como os homens eram maculados e manchados pelo choro.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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Si hubiera podido, habría echado a Warren a patadas y se habría quedado con Norma Jeane. Pero, naturalmente, no podía hacerlo. Vivimos en un mundo de hombres y una mujer debe traicionar a sus congéneres para sobrevivir.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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Tu castigo si eres mujer. Que no te amen lo suficiente.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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Keeping busy" is the remedy for all ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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I am not at ease in a kitchen, which, I tend to think, is a "woman's place"—(I do not identify with "woman" if I can help it: "woman" is likely to be a sap);
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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You may put this in your interview, Miss Fife, that Robert Frost believes in civilization—which is to say the Caucasian civilization." "But
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What would they give you seven years for?' 'Being Gulley Jimson,' I said, 'and getting away with it.
~ Joyce Cary
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Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.
~ Joyce Meyer
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Single women should not be made to feel they are missing something because they are not married. Married women should not be made to feel they must have a career to be complete.
~ Joyce Meyer
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It is easy to get into the flow of the world and just float along in the worldly boat with everybody else. One thing is for sure—no one will be lonely on the broad way. There will always be lots of company because many people are going that way. The
~ Joyce Meyer
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Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.
~ Joycelyn Elders
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