“Why I came to have such quarrels with my mother, to hate and wish dead my mother, I don't know. There was hardly anything she ever told me didn't turn out to be true.” Mothers And DaughtersJoyce Carol OatesJco Book:Man Crazy Source: Man Crazy
“Momma was terrified of being really poor, dirt-poor, and men would know, always men can sniff out the degree of your desperation Momma believed, and force you to do things you don't want to do or don't exactly want to do at that time or in that place or in that way. When you have your own money, Momma said, you have power. But you can lose it Goddamned fast.” JcoJoyce Carole Oates Book:Man Crazy Source: Man Crazy