The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
Joyce Carol OatesExotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.
Joyce Carol OatesWhen my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.
Joyce Carol Oates