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Top 25 Joy McCullough Quotes (2025 Update)

Joy McCullough Quote: “Sisters share a bond unlike any other – thornier, but also tender, full of possibility.”

1. “Sisters share a bond unlike any other – thornier, but also tender, full of possibility.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “I take a length of cloth and hold it to my head – a wedding veil. I do not regret the days of make-believe, but for every time I played at bride I should have played at goddess, river, warrior queen.”

2. “I take a length of cloth and hold it to my head – a wedding veil. I do not regret the days of make-believe, but for every time I played at bride I should have played at goddess, river, warrior queen.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “Because he is a monster. But he’s strong and powerful, and from most perspectives, he’s on the winning side. She has to ask herself – and women have asked themselves this question for centuries – would she rather be suffocated slowly for the rest of her life, or die quickly trying to accomplish something.”

3. “Because he is a monster. But he’s strong and powerful, and from most perspectives, he’s on the winning side. She has to ask herself – and women have asked themselves this question for centuries – would she rather be suffocated slowly for the rest of her life, or die quickly trying to accomplish something.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “Not all stories have happy endings. I cannot promise this one will either. But I am certain you will be glad you stayed with Susanna to the end. She deserves that much – a witness, one who says I see you, hear you, I’m better for knowing your story.”

4. “Not all stories have happy endings. I cannot promise this one will either. But I am certain you will be glad you stayed with Susanna to the end. She deserves that much – a witness, one who says I see you, hear you, I’m better for knowing your story.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “No matter how many layers of paint pile one, I will always be the sketch beneath. Useful, even crucial, but never what’s admired by the world.”

5. “No matter how many layers of paint pile one, I will always be the sketch beneath. Useful, even crucial, but never what’s admired by the world.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “Why, though, does it take a mother, daughter, sister for men to take a woman at her word?”

6. “Why, though, does it take a mother, daughter, sister for men to take a woman at her word?”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “Any man who breathes has more power than a woman in her world – and our world too.”

7. “Any man who breathes has more power than a woman in her world – and our world too.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “Why should a little corner of the garden be so important to a woman like Susanna? A woman with a palatial home, and the finest garments. Because imagine it – if you live as she does, surrounded by endless people and their expectations, ones you cannot possibly live up to, you do not even want to live up to – that refuge might be the only place you are safe.”

8. “Why should a little corner of the garden be so important to a woman like Susanna? A woman with a palatial home, and the finest garments. Because imagine it – if you live as she does, surrounded by endless people and their expectations, ones you cannot possibly live up to, you do not even want to live up to – that refuge might be the only place you are safe.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “If you remember nothing else of Susanna, remember how she speaks her truth. She knows it will cost her something. She’s not aware yet quite how steep the cost will be, but still she speaks her truth.”

9. “If you remember nothing else of Susanna, remember how she speaks her truth. She knows it will cost her something. She’s not aware yet quite how steep the cost will be, but still she speaks her truth.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “For I am a little girl when they want to belittle me, a woman when they want me to bear a child.”

10. “For I am a little girl when they want to belittle me, a woman when they want me to bear a child.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “Sometimes that’s all you need my love – another woman’s faith in you.”

11. “Sometimes that’s all you need my love – another woman’s faith in you.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “I wish men would decide if women are heavenly angels on high, or earthbound sculptures for their gardens. But either way, we’re beauty for consumption.”

12. “I wish men would decide if women are heavenly angels on high, or earthbound sculptures for their gardens. But either way, we’re beauty for consumption.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “But there are many things a woman never sees until she’s joined unto a man.”

13. “But there are many things a woman never sees until she’s joined unto a man.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “In my mother’s mirror, my breasts follow. They’re not half spheres unyielding, behaving how a man believes they ought. They shift and change, they form and function, and they’re mine.”

14. “In my mother’s mirror, my breasts follow. They’re not half spheres unyielding, behaving how a man believes they ought. They shift and change, they form and function, and they’re mine.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “Being in the right is not always the solace you might expect.”

15. “Being in the right is not always the solace you might expect.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “And you should realize, love, that even the simple act of a bath is potentially world-altering. But then, you never see the beast until he is upon you.”

16. “And you should realize, love, that even the simple act of a bath is potentially world-altering. But then, you never see the beast until he is upon you.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “They’re not monsters, either. Not men you’d shrink away from on the street. On the contrary. They’re men you’d see at Mass, who’d give you a polite nod while they greet your husband.”

17. “They’re not monsters, either. Not men you’d shrink away from on the street. On the contrary. They’re men you’d see at Mass, who’d give you a polite nod while they greet your husband.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “Piazzas, churches named for a teenager who gave life to the Christ. Sculptures, paintings, frescoes devoted to her holiness. But the only thing about her we remember, she was a virgin.”

18. “Piazzas, churches named for a teenager who gave life to the Christ. Sculptures, paintings, frescoes devoted to her holiness. But the only thing about her we remember, she was a virgin.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “Words are power.”

19. “Words are power.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “Because sometimes it doesn’t turn out the way you thought it would. Sometimes what you imagine in your head isn’t what comes out of the paintbrush. And then you start to realize something has gone horribly horribly wrong, and there’ll never be a way to put it back the way it was.”

20. “Because sometimes it doesn’t turn out the way you thought it would. Sometimes what you imagine in your head isn’t what comes out of the paintbrush. And then you start to realize something has gone horribly horribly wrong, and there’ll never be a way to put it back the way it was.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “But that’s the thing about perspective; the slightest shift transforms the subject.”

21. “But that’s the thing about perspective; the slightest shift transforms the subject.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “And listen to me love, when a woman risks her place, her very life to speak a truth the world despises? Believe her. Always.”

22. “And listen to me love, when a woman risks her place, her very life to speak a truth the world despises? Believe her. Always.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “I can survive, a solitary creature. I have thus far. But just the thought that someone else might care what fate befalls me- it changes everything.”

23. “I can survive, a solitary creature. I have thus far. But just the thought that someone else might care what fate befalls me- it changes everything.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “I suppose it isn’t fair to fault my father, though he’s the one who used it, moved it, claimed it as his own because of course, he did. That’s just the way of things, I beg and fight and scrape for scraps while he just has to glance upon a thing to make it his.”

24. “I suppose it isn’t fair to fault my father, though he’s the one who used it, moved it, claimed it as his own because of course, he did. That’s just the way of things, I beg and fight and scrape for scraps while he just has to glance upon a thing to make it his.”

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Joy McCullough Quote: “But I’m the witch, a girl transforming one thing to another without an explanation for the wonders that appear upon her canvas. It must be sorcery.”

25. “But I’m the witch, a girl transforming one thing to another without an explanation for the wonders that appear upon her canvas. It must be sorcery.”

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