“Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.”

—  Joyce Carol Oates

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive." by Joyce Carol Oates?
Joyce Carol Oates photo
Joyce Carol Oates 89
American author 1938

Related quotes

Francis Bacon photo

“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

Essex's Device (1595)

Ayumi Hamasaki photo

“A woman could be having fun
A woman could be like a nun
In order to survive
We cannot be kind
Until we are hurt”

Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress

Real Me
Lyrics, Rainbow

“If we have no intuition of ourselves as independent, unmediated beings in the world, then we cannot conceive ourselves surviving our liberation; for what our liberation will do is dissolve the structures and dismantle the mechanisms by which Woman is mediated by Man. If we cannot imagine ourselves surviving this, we certainly will not make it happen.”

Marilyn Frye book The Politics of Reality

Source: The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (1983), p. 80

“We are millions. We just have to survive. We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. It’s a matter of time. The explosion is in our population”

José Ángel Gutiérrez (1944) American academic

from videotape referenced in 16 April 2008 Washington Post article Mexican aliens seek to retake ‘stolen’ land https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/apr/16/20060416-122222-1672r/

Haruki Murakami photo

“We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

William O. Douglas photo

“We need to be bold and adventurous in our thinking in order to survive.”

William O. Douglas (1898–1980) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Dissenting, Adler v. Board of Education of City of New York, 342 U.S. 511 (1952)
Judicial opinions

“The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.”

M. H. Abrams (1912–2015) American literary theorist

On the "death of literature"
Cornell Chronicle interview (1999)

“Haven't you wondered how they could have survived, when, in all of our experimental work every small change we make dies?”

Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) American scientist and inventor

Generation of Greatness (1957)
Context: In thinking about what the human animal might have gone through in the evolutionary process, have you wondered how some of the small changes which must have occurred could have had survival value? Haven't you wondered how they could have survived, when, in all of our experimental work every small change we make dies? … How many changes must have occurred in the human eye, occurred and died, before one change came along — an apparently trivial change … that gave the whole animal a significant increase in its power to perceive and hunt down its enemies and find its food. This is the kind of change that survives.

Maya Angelou photo

“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Related topics