"Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost."
― Joyce Carol Oates
Topic(s):
Religion
More From Joyce Carol Oates
- "To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you’re not aware of that when you’re a child, the whole tradition is lost."
- "As a teacher at Princeton, I’m surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don’t really think of it as work – writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise."
- "I could never take the idea of religion very seriously."
More In Religion
- "Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves."― Paul Tournier
- "I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter’s kindergarten class."― Tucker Carlson
- "Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom – that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself."― David Hilbert