... her Quaker instincts led her to apologize for wrongs no… - Joyce Carol Oates

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... her Quaker instincts led her to apologize for wrongs not her own to minimize conflict.

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Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author who has published 58 novels, plays and novellas, as well as volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014 and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. She is a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley where she teaches short fiction.

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"And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books."
"Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future."

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

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.

... her Quaker instincts led her to apologize for wrongs not her own to minimize conflict. - Joyce Carol Oates

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