“Old women snore violently. They are like bodies into which bizarre animals have crept at night; the animals are vicious, bawdy, noisy. How they snore! There is no shame to their snoring. Old women turn into old men.”

—  Joyce Carol Oates

"What Is the Connection Between Men and Women?" Mademoiselle (February 1970)

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