Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
My Dis-interest In What People Speak Of As "women's Problems," "women's Literature." Have Women A Special Sensibility? No. There Are Individuals Uniquely Talented & Uniquely Equipped To Interpret The Complex Symbolism Of The World But They Are Certainly Not Determined By Gender. The Very Idea Is Astonishing. [ ... ] Energy, Talent, Vision, Insight, Compassion, The Ability To Stay With A Single Work For Long Periods Of Time, The Ability To Be Faithful (to Both One's Writing And One's Beloved)
these Have Nothing To Do With Gender. [ ... ] The Sensibility Of A Virginia Woolf, For Instance. It's Her Own, It's Uniquely Hers. Not Because She Is A "female" But Because She Is, Or Was, Virginia Woolf. Not More Sensitive Than Henry James Or Proust Or James Joyce, Consequently Not More "feminine" In The Narrow & Misleading Sense People Use That Term Today ... But Then I Suppose Critics Must Have Something To Write About. [ ... ]
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