Joy In Our Cause Quotes

“He said, 'I like to see some spirit in my women. I like spunk and the fire in the eye. A woman like that is worth having,' but that was before I kicked him in the groin.”
― Carol Emshwiller, Joy In Our Cause: Short Stories

“I wanted a monument to myself in granite. I wanted my face in seven different colours. I wanted I LOVE YOU in giant red letters on top of the Museum of Modern Art. I wanted a new bridge across the Hudson in my name. I wanted a three-volume history of the Greeks dedicated to my memory. I wanted a filmed version of my life in Ektachrome Commercial. I wanted the Mercedes-Benz no longer to be for Mercedes.

But I have small breasts.”
― Carol Emshwiller, Joy In Our Cause: Short Stories

“It has been a profitable three days. In the time to knit a fairly long scarf, I have learned about the universe.”
― Carol Emshwiller, Joy In Our Cause: Short Stories

“I'll practice the new me in front of guests. I kind of like some of them, the guests. One has a soft, soft voice but I'm afraid he, too, may be practicing his new personality on me and that maybe he has trained himself with electric shock to his balls or some other place just as tender and soft, so that we are both living a lie.”
― Carol Emshwiller, Joy In Our Cause: Short Stories

“When Gertrude Stein came to Ann Arbor, my mother said that all she said was, a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

When Dylan Thomas came to Ann Arbor, my father said that he was a terrible man.

And that is how I was brought up.”
― Carol Emshwiller, Joy In Our Cause: Short Stories