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Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
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The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.
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