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Quotation by Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates (13)Additional Sources
Do What You Will (1970)interview in Guardian (London, August 18, 1989)"In the Founders' Room" Unholy Loves (1979)On Boxing (1987)On Boxing Doubleday (1987)Related Subjects
youth (24) death (15) love (11) wisdom (11) aging (9) memory (7) experience (6) folly (6) time (5) women (5)
Old women snore violently. They are like bodies into which bizarre animals have crept at night; the animals are vicious, bawdy, noisy. How they snore! There is no shame to their snoring. Old women turn into old men.
Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938), U.S. author. "What Is the Connection Between Men and Women?" Mademoiselle (New York, Feb. 1970).
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