“The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.”
"In love there are two things– bodies and words."
- Joyce Carol Oates
Love
"The journal is the ideal place of refuge for the inner self because it constitutes a counterworld: a world to balance the other."
- Joyce Carol Oates
Balance
"Don’t labor over a little cameo work in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind."
- Joyce Carol Oates
Creativity
"The best revenge is living well without you."
- Joyce Carol Oates
Healing
"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
- Joyce Carol Oates
Empathy
"We cannot control who we fall in love with, but we can choose how we treat them."
- Beauty and the Beast
Relationships
"I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word ‘diva’ and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn’t afraid to show it."
- Nick Cannon
Relationships
"It’s not what’s under the tree that matters, it’s who’s gathered around it."
Relationships
"As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same."
- Donald E. Westlake
Relationships
"A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright."
- Lucille Ball
Relationships