Quotes About Jeffrey Eugenides

The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.

Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.

swift, athletic timing. I had to shout from the

Everyone in the room was so spectral-looking that Madeleine's natural healthiness seemed suspect, like a vote for Reagan.