Joyce Carol Oates Quote
The fact was that the woman lived the life she chose, she was happy in that life and it was no one's business after all but her own, my uncle's face darkening with blood as he spoke, my mother's fair fine skin pink as if smarting yet still I persisted, for I thought it such a horror, such a grief, yes and an embarrassment too, I said, She's made a prison of this house, it's like she's a nun, it must be to punish herself, and my mother said quietly, angrily, You don't know - what do you know! People do what they want to do.
Joyce Carol Oates
The fact was that the woman lived the life she chose, she was happy in that life and it was no one's business after all but her own, my uncle's face darkening with blood as he spoke, my mother's fair fine skin pink as if smarting yet still I persisted, for I thought it such a horror, such a grief, yes and an embarrassment too, I said, She's made a prison of this house, it's like she's a nun, it must be to punish herself, and my mother said quietly, angrily, You don't know - what do you know! People do what they want to do.
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